{"id":233,"date":"2021-04-10T14:35:34","date_gmt":"2021-04-10T14:35:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jimclarke.net\/?p=233"},"modified":"2021-04-10T14:35:36","modified_gmt":"2021-04-10T14:35:36","slug":"speaking-at-the-dawn-of-mankind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jimclarke.net\/index.php\/2021\/04\/10\/speaking-at-the-dawn-of-mankind\/","title":{"rendered":"Speaking at the Dawn of Mankind"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>How did people speak at the dawn of mankind? <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What was the language of Europe&#8217;s earliest people?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The study of ancient, unrecorded languages is known as paelolinguistics. The attempt to recreate them is as much an art as a science, however, and in that regard, there is no finer artist than Anthony Burgess.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here&#8217;s the <a href=\"https:\/\/ponyingtheslovos.coventry.domains\/invented-languages\/anthony-burgesss-other-invented-languages-part-7-paleolinguistics-and-proto-indo-european\/\">seventh part of the Ponying the Slovos series on his invented languages.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How did people speak at the dawn of mankind? What was the language of Europe&#8217;s earliest people? The study of ancient, unrecorded languages is known as paelolinguistics. The attempt to recreate them is as much an art as a science, however, and in that regard, there is no finer artist than Anthony Burgess. Here&#8217;s the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jimclarke.net\/index.php\/2021\/04\/10\/speaking-at-the-dawn-of-mankind\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Speaking at the Dawn of Mankind&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[19],"tags":[22,29,103],"class_list":["post-233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-invented-languages","tag-anthony-burgess","tag-invented-languages","tag-paleolinguistics"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pcnZAt-3L","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimclarke.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimclarke.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimclarke.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimclarke.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimclarke.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=233"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jimclarke.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":234,"href":"https:\/\/jimclarke.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233\/revisions\/234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimclarke.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimclarke.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimclarke.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}