Re:Oppenheimer and the Gita (2014)
by danans on Saturday October 05, 2019 @12:52PM
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> words sound so much like old english/germanic.
The relationship you are seeing was discovered nearly two centuries ago, and has been thoroughly studied since then [1].
> there have just soo many of them and every region has their own dialects.
If linguistic diversity is the measure you are interested in, Papua New Guinea [2] and Sub Saharan Africa [3] are orders of magnitude more diverse that Europe and South or East Asia.
The relationship you are seeing was discovered nearly two centuries ago, and has been thoroughly studied since then [1].
> there have just soo many of them and every region has their own dialects.
If linguistic diversity is the measure you are interested in, Papua New Guinea [2] and Sub Saharan Africa [3] are orders of magnitude more diverse that Europe and South or East Asia.
1. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indo-European_languages
2. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages_of_Papua_New_Guine...
3. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sub-Saharan_Africa#Languages...