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What are your thoughts on Proto Indo European?
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Excellent!
I'd hoped McWhorter's course (Language Families of the World) would've gone into this kind of detail, but its more of a 100-level course exposing students to the concepts and scale of language families.
I have this book. It's by no means a bad book; it's a great starting point, the info there seems to be well researched, and the main focus seems to be on the language diversity attested around the world. But yes, if you're looking for depth it feels like missing stuff. (It doesn't even mention the Macro-Ge and Tupi families ;_; )
Yea, it's a great introduction. I have his History of the Alphabet course, too.
Would've enjoyed having him as a prof!
The History of English podcast is really interesting too. Probably nothing you don't already know, but good to pass on to people asking questions.
I wasn't aware of this podcast, so thank you for the rec!