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Anatolian language.

A very interesting new point of view about the origin of the language is Quentin Atkinson’s reaserch of the University of Auckland in New Zeland. (Science 24 August 2012: Vol. 337 no. 6097 pp. 957-960 DOI: 10.1126/science.1219669). His group found a decisive support for an Anatolian origin of Indo-European language. According to his research the seedling of the tree of IE began 8,000 to 9,500 years ago from Anatolia together with the agricultural expansion. Like every research it started with a menu of vocabulary items based on the premise they are resistant to linguistic change like: X-Premise English mother father  German mutter vater Russian mat отец Italian madre padre Persian madar - Polish matka ojciec Latin mater pater Albanian Am At Or: X-Premise-pronouns English I  German I