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Related: http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/linguists-identify-15000-year-old-ultraconserved-words/2013/05/06/a02e3a14-b427-11e2-9a98-4be1688

• ar-jan 12y ago
  The research behind that article is extremely problematic. See e.g. [1] and [2]. The WP article adds its own overinterpretations to it, such as as the nonsensical "But if you went back 15,000 years and spoke these words to hunter-gatherers in Asia in any one of hundreds of modern languages, there is a chance they would understand at least some of what you were saying." 1: http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=4612 http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=4612 2: http://languagesoftheworld.info/bad-linguistics/ultraconserved-words-reveal-linguistic-macro-families.html http://languagesoftheworld.info/bad-linguistics/ultraconserv...