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The words for 'father/ 'mother/ 'daughter/ 'sheep/ 'dog/ 'bird/ 'winter/ 'wagon/ and many others show this conmion source. Often these words do not seem at first sight to be very much aUke, but the study of many languages has shown what sort of changes in prommciation takes place, and so it is possible to recognize the relation between words which sound and look quite dififerent. Thus the English word 'father' and the Latin pater do not look very much aUke. But it has been found that the letter... p in such languages as Greek and Latin is usually represented by / in English, and that t is usually represented by th. This does not mean that 'father' is derived from pater, but that both are derived from an older word in the language from which both English and Latin have come. Those who spoke this older language, as we have seen, are called Aryans. While there are no words of this old language in existence, we can tell by studying the Indo- European langus^es something of what it was like. Many attempts have been made to find out where the Aryans lived, by examining the words which they appear to have used.
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The words for 'father/ 'mother/ 'daughter/ 'sheep/ 'dog/ 'bird/ 'winter/ 'wagon/ and many others show this conmion source. Often these words do not seem at first sight to be very much aUke, but the study of many languages has shown what sort of changes in prommciation takes place, and so it is possible to recognize the relation between words which sound and look quite dififerent. Thus the English word 'father' and the Latin pater do not look very much aUke. But it has been found that the letter... p in such languages as Greek and Latin is usually represented by / in English, and that t is usually represented by th. This does not mean that 'father' is derived from pater, but that both are derived from an older word in the language from which both English and Latin have come. Those who spoke this older language, as we have seen, are called Aryans. While there are no words of this old language in existence, we can tell by studying the Indo- European langus^es something of what it was like. Many attempts have been made to find out where the Aryans lived, by examining the words which they appear to have used.
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