July 11, 2012
Episode 4: A Grimm Brother Resurrects the Dead (…language)
The History of English PodcastAbout this episode
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