1331: Researchers' Caution about Proto-World Aug 3, 2018

Some linguists have tried to argue for the existence of a proto-language labeled Proto-World that has lead to all subsequent ones, but this is mostly not believed. Somewhat less extreme conclusions from less academic sources however, are often displayed as being fundamentally human in some way or another, and researchers often try to clarify that. Even researchers who make observations such as the rarity of words for first person singular pronouns to contain consonants like [p], [b], [t], [s], [r] and [l] are qui, for instance, will make it clear that when this happens, usually certain words are older or that the research is only looking at selective words, and shouldn't be taken to be consistent across the board.
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