Surprises in the Ancestry of Old English (Unabridged) - John McWhorter

Surprises in the Ancestry of Old English (Unabridged)

By John McWhorter

  • Release Date: 2012-03-02
  • Genre: History
  • © 2012 The Great Courses

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Summary : Surprises in the Ancestry of Old English (Unabridged)

Trace the evidence that English derives from a language that was incompletely learned by invaders of northern Europe more than 2,000 years ago. Where were these people from? An analysis of sound changes in their language, Proto-Germanic, leads to an intriguing hypothesis.

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