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Nov 23, 2023: week 11 (history of indo-european languages)th - Coggle…

- - - - there's another language that has the meaning of "mother" - but pronounciation and writing is very similar but different
        
        something like "moter"
- - - - gothic (a dead language)
    - - norwegian
      - icelandic
      - swedish
      - danish
      - faroese
    - - english
      - german
      - dutch
      - frisian
      - afrikaans
      - yiddish
- - - - people move into an area where no one else resides
      - not a likely explanation
        
        bc we know that there were people in europe before the indo-european people
    - - language evolves over time in different areas, into "sets of other languages"
    - - *most likely explanation
      - indigenous languages are placed by newcomers
        
        such as being overrun by a new group with superior military technology
      - sometimes, indigenous group will use the new technology and retain its language
      - language of the conquerors replaces the language of the subjugated people (cf. spanish in latin america)
        
        language of the conquerors become the "mother tongue" (main language)