Sign up to save your podcasts
Or
Share Episode 4: A Grimm Brother Resurrects the Dead (…language)
Share to email
Share to Facebook
Share to X
Share to email
Share to Facebook
Share to X
Or
Episode 4: A Grimm Brother Resurrects the Dead (…language)
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
View all episodes
By Kevin Stroud
4.8
63446,344 ratings
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
More shows like The History of English Podcast
View all
In Our Time
5,428 Listeners
History Extra podcast
3,196 Listeners
The British History Podcast
5,390 Listeners
The History of Byzantium
4,261 Listeners
The History of England
4,385 Listeners
Literature and History
1,423 Listeners
The History of Ancient Greece
984 Listeners
Tides of History
6,308 Listeners
History of the World podcast
906 Listeners
Pax Britannica: A History of the British Empire
371 Listeners
The Ancients
3,234 Listeners
History of the Germans
454 Listeners
Gone Medieval
1,823 Listeners
Lexicon Valley
553 Listeners
Anglo-Saxon England
219 Listeners