Before Babel

Synopsis: Is it possible that all human languages share a common ancestor? Since William Jones discovered the link between English and Sanskrit in 1783, the existence of a group of languages known as Indo-European has been established. Now there is a major research project involving linguists, geneticists, palaeontologists and archaeologists trying to reconstruct a ‘mother tongue’ from which all of the 5000 languages currently spoken is descended.
Series: Horizon, Series
Language: English
Country: Great Britain
Medium: Video; Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 50 min.
Year of production: 1992
Availability: Sale; 2000 sale: £99.00 (+VAT +p&p)
Notes: Reviewed in British Council VFB.
Subjects: Linguistics
Keywords: languages

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