Linguist study finds core group of words has survived for 15,000 years

Tuesday, May 7, 2013 - 08:30 in Paleontology & Archaeology

(Phys.org) —A team of linguistics experts from the U.S., Great Britain and New Zealand has found evidence that suggests a core group of words used in a common language thousands of years ago has survived to this day. In their paper published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the researchers claim that some core words used in modern languages are related to some spoken 15,000 years ago.

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