{"id":14588,"date":"2014-11-04T20:41:25","date_gmt":"2014-11-04T15:41:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/?p=14588"},"modified":"2014-11-04T20:42:58","modified_gmt":"2014-11-04T15:42:58","slug":"beautiful-linguistic-family-tree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/beautiful-linguistic-family-tree\/","title":{"rendered":"Beautiful Linguistic Family Tree"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mentalfloss.com\/sites\/default\/files\/196.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14590\" src=\"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Old_World_Language_Families.jpg\" alt=\"Old_World_Language_Families\" width=\"437\" height=\"616\" srcset=\"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Old_World_Language_Families.jpg 437w, https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Old_World_Language_Families-212x300.jpg 212w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 437px) 100vw, 437px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14591\" src=\"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Old_World_Languages_detail.jpg\" alt=\"Old_World_Languages_detail\" width=\"437\" height=\"457\" srcset=\"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Old_World_Languages_detail.jpg 437w, https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Old_World_Languages_detail-286x300.jpg 286w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 437px) 100vw, 437px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #999999;\"><em>(somewhere in the post-apocolyptic North)<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When linguists talk about the historical relationship between languages, they use a tree metaphor. An ancient source (say, Indo-European) has various branches (e.g., Romance, Germanic), which themselves have branches (West Germanic, North Germanic), which feed into specific languages (Swedish, Danish, Norwegian).&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Lessons on language families are often illustrated with a simple tree diagram that has all the information but lacks imagination. There\u2019s no reason linguistics has to be so visually uninspiring. Minna Sundberg, creator of the webcomic\u00a0<span style=\"color: #99ccff;\"><em style=\"font-style: italic;\"><a style=\"color: #04bfc3;\" href=\"http:\/\/sssscomic.com\/index.php\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #99ccff;\">Stand Still. Stay Silent<\/span><\/a><\/em><a style=\"color: #04bfc3;\" href=\"http:\/\/sssscomic.com\/index.php\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #99ccff;\">,<\/span><\/a><\/span>\u00a0a story set in a lushly imagined post-apocalyptic Nordic world, has drawn the antidote to the boring linguistic tree diagram.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #999999;\"><em>Access the full-size diagram <a href=\"http:\/\/mentalfloss.com\/sites\/default\/files\/196.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #999999;\">here<\/span><\/a>. (<a href=\"http:\/\/mentalfloss.com\/article\/59665\/feast-your-eyes-beautiful-linguistic-family-tree\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #999999;\">Source<\/span><\/a>).<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(somewhere in the post-apocolyptic North) &#8220;When linguists talk about the historical relationship between languages, they use a tree metaphor. An ancient source (say, Indo-European) has various branches (e.g., Romance, Germanic), which themselves have branches (West Germanic, North Germanic), which feed into specific languages (Swedish, Danish, Norwegian).&#8221; &#8220;Lessons on language families are often illustrated with a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,5,6,7,9,17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14588"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14588"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14588\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14595,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14588\/revisions\/14595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}