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August Schleicher: Linguist and Theorist by Ганна Галущенко is a document available to read on EtoBox.
August Schleicher was a 19th century German linguist who made important contributions to reconstructing Proto-Indo-European and developing theories of historical linguistics. He created a short fable to exemplify the reconstructed Proto-Indo-European vocabulary and society. Schleicher believed that languages evolve over time through periods of development, maturity, and decline, and start out simpler than they become. He also argued that there were originally many original languages in the world rather than
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- Ганна Галущенко
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- EN