The Spoken History of a Global Language
Episode 4: A Grimm Brother Resurrects the Dead (…language)
July 10, 2012
50:17
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The famous fairy-tale collector Jacob Grimm formulated the rules which help modern linguists reconstruct the ancient Indo-European language. In this episode, we look at Grimm’s Law and how the Germanic languages evolved from the original ancestral language. TRANSCRIPT: EPISODE 4