| 內容簡介 | Is it possible that all human languages share a common ancestor? Since William Jones discovered the link between English and Sanskrit in 1783, the existence of a group of languages known as Indo-European has been established. Today, there is a major research project involving linguists, geneticists, palaeontologists and archaeologists trying to reconstruct a ，mother tongue， from which all of the 5,000 languages currently spoken are descended.<摘錄自媒體封面或內頁> |