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A Will we ever speak like our ancestors?
B How much heve we got in common?
C Why should we learn foreign languages?
D Where do most European languages come from?
E Who speaks like the first Europeans?
F Who doesn't belong to the family?
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More than a hundred national languages are spoken in Europe and most of them come from the same "parent" language, called proto-Idno-European. It was used about ten thousand years ago, probably somewhere in the eastern part of Ukraine as we know it today. Althought linguists heve developed good methods for reconstructing old languages, we can only guess what that languages, we can only guess what that language sounded like.
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DSo why don't we understand each other if languages such as Polish, English, French and Greek all belong to one big Indo-European family? It all depends how close our language is to other family members. Slovak and Polish, or Danish and Swedish, for example, are like brother and sister. They're so similar to each other that their users can understand a lot of the other language. On the other hand, English and Polish are like distant relations. They have very few words which come from their shared ancestors. But if you can see surprising similarities. Sister- sisotra, two-dwa or new- nowy are modern wersions of old proto-Indo-European words.
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There are of course some european languages that are like friendly neighbours but not our cousins: Hungarian, Finnish, Estonian, Maltese or Basque belong to completely different groups.
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Basque, in fact, isn't similar to any other languages. It's spoken in northern Spain and the French Pyrenees and it seems to be the oldest language in Europe. Linguists believe that Basque comes from the languages which were used in Europe before our Indo-European ancestors moved to this part of the wrold.
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In 2006 two Spanish students, Carlos Quiles and Maria Teresa Batalla, presented the Modern Indo-European language. The believe it can become the official language of the European Union in 20-40 years from now. Who knows? Maybe your grandchildren will learn Europaio at school instead of English
BARDZO DZIĘKUJĘ TYM CO POMOGLI:D
1 - D
2 - b
3 - F
4- a
5 - e