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• Comparative Method
• a way to reconstruct past methods of language
• it is speculative 

Looking at these sister langaguages we can make assumption about the “parent” languages

look at the changes and decide what makes the most sense (the b probably turned into a v so the parent language probably had a b)

• 1786 
• Wanted to be a scholar of Arabic Languages
• Couldn’t get a job because he was an American Sympathizer
• Studied Sanskrit in India
• Published a book about Arabic poems
• said Latin and Greek are too much a like including the grammar
• He used the comparative method to show the similarities of Latin and Greek

• worked the next 100 years mapping the languages·        Indo-European Languages (name of the supposed parent language of these sister languages)
• Majority of the languages are of this same family

• not the native language of anyone
• starts abruptly (slavery)
• created by speakers in the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans in the 17th and 18th Century·       
• make shift language that is used among people who don’t share a same language
• mostly nouns and verbs 

• the children of a pidgin speaker learn it as their first language
• the language creates a grammar 
• usually a broken language 

• Basilect- Fi mi buk dat
• Mesolect- tis mi buk
• Acrolect- It’s my book

Language of West Saxon is what we call Old English (Beowulf 10th Century)Old English had Case