8,000 years ago you spoke Lithuanian

Listen to our ancient 'mother tongue': Researchers recreate how words were spoken 8,000 years ago

Researchers have developed a new method to simulate these extinct sounds by analyzing the languages that later stemmed from them, manipulating the shape of the soundwaves to reveal how words would have sounded. A spectogram is pictured above, showing the sound of a word.

The researchers have revealed what it would sound like to count in the Proto-Indo-European language:

One - óinos

Two - dwoh

Three - tréies

Four - kʷetwóres

Five - pénkʷe

Six - (k)swekʲs

Seven - septḿ

Eight - hokʲto

Nine - hnewhm

Ten - dekʲm(t)

Listen.

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