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Are the any professional linguists in this thread?

Reason I ask is I have become very interested in the origin of languages over the last year or so (partially because of Covid). I've been learning German and French for a while now and I find the most difficult parts of learning these languages to be the grammar. I'd like to find a hierarchy of grammar for related languages, and see if there are some patterns that filter down through the child languages. I have a Latin textbook (probably need to dust that off), and am very interested in how these languages (Romance and Germanic) are all stitched together.



You may find The World Atlas of Language Structures https://wals.info/chapter/s1 interesting then.


you should be checking out the classic work The Loom of Language




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