| | A Fistful of Euros: Comment on Ursprache is German. And so is Weltschmerz. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01) |
 | | Indeed the old romantic notion of a common Ursprache can be proven wrong from a very simple evolutionary point, showing that cultures and their languages developed gradually, independently from each other in different parts of the world. |
 | | Before the earliest proofs for what linguists call a language, like proto-germanic inscriptions on north-european stones a few thousand years old, there were for periods of hundreds of thousands of years, other forms of 'language' that will never be reconstructed because they were only transmitted orally. |
 | | Fundamentalistically speaking the idea of mankind's one ursprache is heretical. |
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