English orthography is a dead giveaway. For example, why does the letter "i" in most continental European languages represent the vowel /i/, while in English it

English orthography is a dead giveaway. For example, why does the letter "i" in most continental European languages represent the vowel /i/, while in English it represents a diphthong? The way French loanwords or Latinisms are pronounced in modern English is similar evidence. Also, vowel chain shifts are exceedingly common across the languages of the world: compare Tatar and Kazakh to the other languages of their subgroup (Kipchak) within the Turkic family, for instance. Sometimes a vowel chain shift can even be observed in progress, as in the case of the Northern Cities Shift in the USA. [0] [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inland_Northern_American_English#Northern_Cities_Vowel_Shift https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inland_Northern_American_Engli...