The History of English Podcast

Episode 4: A Grimm Brother Resurrects the Dead (…language)

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July 10, 2012 7:05pm

50m

The famous fairy-tale collector Jacob Grimm formulated the rules which help modern linguists reconstruct the ancient Indo-European language.  In this episode, we look at Grimm’s Law and how the Germanic languages evolved from the original ancestral language.

TRANSCRIPT: EPISODE 4