Sounds 6000 Years Old

The languages of Europe, India and Central Asia are mostly descended from the Proto-Indo-European language spoken 6,000 years ago. Sounds 6000 Years Old

Scholars have been trying to figure out what it sounded like and think they have come close.

Here is the parable of the sheep and the horse as it might have sounded in 4,000 B.C. with the translation below it.

A sheep that had no wool saw horses, one of them pulling a heavy wagon, one carrying a big load, and one carrying a man quickly. The sheep said to the horses: “My heart pains me, seeing a man driving horses.” The horses said: “Listen, sheep, our hearts pain us when we see this: a man, the master, makes the wool of the sheep into a warm garment for himself. And the sheep has no wool.” Having heard this, the sheep fled into the plain.

Sounds 6000 Years Old

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