: how do researchers find the sound of dead languages with just the written text without ever hearing it.
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Comparative analysis. If ancient indo-european evolved into Baltic, Slavic, Germanic and Indian you look at the similarities between those languages. Do 3 of them a ‘ch’ sound and one doesn’t, then indo-european probably had a ‘ch’ sound. Is it 2 vs 2? Then it’s unknown. Does only one? Then it’s probably a unique invention of that language.
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