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[43 min video] How We Know Languages like Proto-Indo-European Existed

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This video offers a nice introduction on the comparative method, used to reconstruct languages without direct attestation, and then talks a bit about the reconstruction of Proto-Indo-European. It's full of examples and rather accessible, even for people not well-versed in Historical Linguistics (or even Linguistics).

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  • We love us some Simon Roper, don't we!

    • I love his videos. Besides PIE he has also a lot of good stuff on Proto-Germanic and Old English. Found the link for that one (by coincidence) on another comm and brought it here.