The Language Families
Things with no place
How does this exist in spatial relation to other knowledge?
This arrangement is schematic. Distance and direction on this diagram carry no physical meaning — it shows how these things relate, not where they are. Nothing here is measured position, live telemetry or a simulation.
Programmes2
The organisation that flew the missions, across years.
Ideas and conditions29
Something with no place at all: a condition, a plan, an idea.
- Laryngeal theory
- Afroasiatic
- Austronesian
- Dravidian
- Indo-European
- Niger-Congo
- Sino-Tibetan
- Trans-New Guinea
- Uralic
- Hittite
- Proto-Indo-European
- Sanskrit
- Sumerian
- Ancient DNA as a check on linguistic prehistory
- Bayesian phylogenetic dating of language families
- The comparative method
- Glottochronology
- Ferdinand de Saussure
- Jacob Grimm
- Joseph Greenberg
- Sir William Jones
- The Austronesian expansion
- The Bantu expansion
- Grimm's Law — the first Germanic sound shift
- Contact, borrowing and the limits of resemblance
- Language death
- The language isolate
- The regularity of sound change
- Verner's Law — the exception that rescued the rule