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<font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">From: </font><font color="#000000"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span name="mail.bigpond.com"><a href="http://mail.bigpond.com">mail.bigpond.com</a></span> </font><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span><<a href="mailto:thomas.mcrae@bigpond.com">thomas.mcrae@bigpond.com</a>><br>
</span>Subject: LL-l Linguistics Ancient language not heard for 4,000<br><br></font><div dir="auto"><div><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><strong>Ancient language not heard for 4,000 years is recorded for the first time as linguists work out how English came about using ancient texts</strong><br>
<br>Proto-Indo-European, or PIE for short, is an ancient language mixing Latin, Greek and Sanskrit which was spoken around 4,500 B.C.<br><br>Full Story:<br></font><a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2437445/Ancient-language-called-PIE-heard-4-000-years-recorded-time.html" target="_blank"><font color="#0066cc" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">http://www.dailymail.co.uk/</font><font color="#0066cc" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">sciencetech/article-2437445/</font><font color="#0066cc" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Ancient-language-called-PIE-</font><font color="#0066cc" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">heard-4-000-years-recorded-</font><font color="#0066cc" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">time.html</font></a></div>
<div><br><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Sent from my iPad</font><div><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Tom Mc Rae</font></div><div><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Brisbane Australia</font></div></div>
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<div style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;text-align:left"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </font></div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;text-align:left"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">From: R. F. Hahn <</font><a href="mailto:sassisch@yahoo.com" target="_blank"><font color="#0066cc" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">sassisch@yahoo.com</font></a><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">><br>
Subject: Language varieties</font></div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;text-align:left"><br><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Thanks, Tom! You beat me to it. I was just about to fire off a similar message when yours arrived.<br>
<br>When I listen to the audio recording and read the text I can't help wondering if this reconstructed Indo-European language isn't overly complex due to hitherto unknown shifts.<br><br>And, talking about ancient history (going back much farther than to Indo-European ancestors), I've done what our Roger Thijs had done much earlier: I had my DNA analyzed. Among other things, doing so affords you glimpses of your ancestry going back thousands of years, and it matches you with relatives far and wide (as long as they are in the database). This comes with surprises, in my case for instance ancestry in the Ural Mountains and connections with lots of people in Finland, a few in Hungary, and also in the Caucasus region. More surprising to me were small percentages of West African and Melanesian ancestry (perhaps because <span id="goog_596179937"></span></font><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_colonies"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Germany had colonies in West Africa and Papua New Guinea</font></a><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">?). Also surprising to me was a good dose of </font><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baloch_people"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Balochi</font></a><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> ancestry (perhaps from </font><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romani_people"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Romani ["Gypsy"]</font></a><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> ancestry?) Most of my ancestry, however, is Northeastern European, followed by "Atlantic" (West European?), West and East Mediterranean, and a dose of Near Eastern (which connects me with Jewish third, fourth and fifth cousins all over the world).<br>
<br>Taking such a test may be helpful in chipping away at racism.<br><br>If you respond only to this genealogical part of my posting, please entitle it "LL-L Genealogy". <br><br>Please write to me privately to find out about taking this sort of test.</font></div>
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