Indo-European is the brassica oleracea of languages. You're all native cabbage speakers.https://twitter.com/marigo/status/912185789806780416 …
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Vocabulary borrowing is to linguistic relationships as cultural borrowings are to genetic relationships. A red herring in genealogy.
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Sanskrit is a small side node because it is a dead classics language so few living speakers. The chart is speaker-population-sized
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An interesting q is "Sanskrit derived" vocabulary. I suspect pop notion of common languages being "derived" from scholarly is 100% backwards
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