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AFP: Turkey the birthplace of Hindi, English: study

Turkey the birthplace of Hindi, English: study

By Mira Oberman (AFP) – 13 hours ago

CHICAGO — Could the word for mother prove that Turkey was the birthplace of hundreds of languages as diverse as Hindi, Russian, Dutch, Albanian, Italian and English?

Researchers using a complex computer model originally designed to map epidemics have traced the evolution of the Indo-European language family to find an answer in a study published Tuesday in the journal Science.

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