The Spoken History of a Global Language

Episode 4: A Grimm Brother Resurrects the Dead (…language)

July 10, 2012 50:17 36.31 MB Downloads: 0
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