Posted by admin on May 10, 2013
Mother, bark and spit are just three of 23 words that researchers believe date back 15,000 years, making them the oldest known words.
The words, highlighted in a new PNAS paper, all come from seven language families of Europe and Asia. It’s believed that they were part of a linguistic super-family that evolved from a common ancestral language.
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