But things go sour quickly as two wrongs make an even wronger wrong. Check out Aurie's channel here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbwMMS-92JKOKxi8GAhayRA...
ABAlphaBeta has so much cool historical lingusitics content
So it’s more just a few common threads between otherwise possibly very different cultures or languages or peoples?
Yes and no. The languages themselves may be quite divergent, like english vs bengali or mandarin vs burmese, but the key thing is that they used to be the same; just like how latin diverged and evolved into the modern romance languages, the idea is that PIE (and the proto languages of other language families like sino-tibetan and afro-asiatic) diverged and evolved into other languages, which themselves diverged and evolved into further languages, in a process that is still continuing today. Sometimes with quite different results!
Ah ok thanks, it makes sense that it's an uncertain field with lots of revision, I suppose we've still got a lot to dig up.
So it's more just a few common threads between otherwise possibly very different cultures or languages or peoples?
Yes and no. The languages themselves may be quite divergent, like english vs bengali or mandarin vs burmese, but the key thing is that they used to be the same; just like how latin diverged and evolved into the modern romance languages, the idea is that PIE (and the proto languages of other language families like sino-tibetan and afro-asiatic) diverged and evolved into other languages, which themselves diverged and evolved into further languages, in a process that is still continuing today. Sometimes with quite different results!