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🗣️ KNOW PRIMARY · AGES 6–11

LANGUAGES

🌳 How One Ancient Tongue Grew Into Hundreds of Languages!

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ONE TONGUE
6,000 Years Ago
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PEOPLE MOVE
Across Continents
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IT SPLITS
New Languages Grow
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FAMILY TREE
400+ Languages
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TODAY
Half the World Speaks Them
🌳 SANSKRIT & LANGUAGE FAMILIES
TOPIC 02 · LANGUAGES · ORIGINS OF LANGUAGE
PAGE 1 OF 5 — SECRET COUSINS
A BIG CLUE
Sanskrit and Language Families comic panel: a big clue, languages can be related
LANGUAGES CAN BE RELATED
Look at these words for mother: madre in Spanish, mutter in German, mata in Sanskrit, and mother in English. They sound oddly similar, and that is no accident. Long ago, scholars noticed that languages from places as far apart as India and Ireland shared matching words. It was a huge clue. These languages were not strangers at all, they were cousins, all descended from one much older language.
⚡ DID YOU KNOW?
Words that match across related languages are called cognates. Spotting cognates is how language detectives prove two languages are related.
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MATCHING WORDS
Sanskrit and Language Families comic panel showing matching words
👩 Mother, madre, mutter, mata
🔍 Too alike to be a coincidence
FAR APART
Sanskrit and Language Families comic panel showing far apart
🗺️ India to Europe is very far
🤝 Yet the words still match up
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