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Today's Paper INTERNATIONAL May 8, 2013
Bark was really important to early people, said Mr. Pagel. They used it as insulation, to start fires, and they made fibres from it. But I couldnt say I expected to spit to be there. I have no idea why. Only a handful of verbs appear on the list, but Mr. Pagel points out to give, which appeared in similar form in five of the Eurasiatic languages. From their findings, the scientists drew up a family tree of the seven languages. All emerged from a common tongue around 15,000 years ago, and split off into separate languages over the next 5,000 years. The very fact that we can identify these words that retain traces of their deep ancestry tells us something fundamental about our language faculties. It tells us we have this ability to transmit highly complicated and precise information from mouth to ear over tens of thousands of years, said Mr. Pagel. Guardian Newspapers Limited, 2013 Scientists in Britain point to a common origin for vocabularies as varied as English and Urdu