Ancient languages reconstructed by computer program
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-21427896
A new tool has been developed that can reconstruct long-dead languages.
Researchers have created software that can rebuild protolanguages – the ancient tongues from which our modern languages evolved.
To test the system, the team took 637 languages currently spoken in Asia and the Pacific and recreated the early language from which they descended.
The work is published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science.
Currently language reconstructions are carried out by linguists – but the process is slow and labour-intensive.
Dan Klein, an associate professor at the University of California, Berkeley, said: “It’s very time consuming for humans to look at all the data. There are thousands of languages in the world, with thousands of words each, not to mention all of those languages’ ancestors.
“It would take hundreds of lifetimes to pore over all those languages, cross-referencing all the different changes that happened across such an expanse of space – and of time. But this is where computers shine.”
Over thousands of years, tiny variations in the way that we produce sounds have meant that early languages have morphed into many different descendents.
Dr Klein explains: “These sound changes are almost always regular, with similar words changing in similar ways, so patterns are left that a human or a computer can find.
“The trick is to identify these patterns of change and then to ‘reverse’ them, basically evolving words backwards in time.”
The scientists demonstrated their system by looking at a group of Austronesian languages that are currently spoken in southeast Asia, parts of continental Asia and the Pacific.
From a database of 142,000 words, the system was able to recreate the early language from which these modern tongues derived. The scientists believe it would have been spoken about 7,000 years ago.
They then compared the computer’s findings to those of linguists, finding that 85% of the early words that the software presented were within one “character” – or sound – of the words that the language experts had identified.
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excellent use of the computer here 
i want to know how some patterns of hieroglyphics were nearly the same across different parts of the world..
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For over 10 years, studies have been done with computers, of the Aymara language, and compared with the English language many words have the same root.
this means that there is a code from which arise all the world’s languages.
as there is a code for telepathy.
human beings are here to discover the reality. The truth.
animals also have a decipherable code. I know from experience, and I saw another person as he communicated with the birds that lived in the trees of his garden.
and in other dimensions, I have communicated telepathically with animals, and some, with level of knowledge and very high sensitivity.
the truth is waiting to be discovered by ourselves.
“this means that there is a code from which arise all the world’s languages.
as there is a code for telepathy.
human beings are here to discover the reality. The truth.”