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Indo-European languages
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Around half of the world’s population speak Indo-European languages alone. And if you add to this the populations of the other Saharasian peoples – close to half a billion Semitic Arabic and Jewish peoples, one and a half billion East-Asian Saharasian peoples (the Chinese,
Japanese and Koreans) plus other smaller peoples who originated from the region,
such as the Turks and the Finno-Ugric speaking peoples – this constitutes a huge
proportion of the human race.
--- Does the last part of the sentence in bold imply that a huge proportion of the human race speak Indo-European languages??? I just thought that for example Chinese is not an Indo-European language and that's why I'm not sure if this is what is says?
Also: "who originated from the region" refers to the region of East Asia, right?
Thanks
Around half of the world’s population speak Indo-European languages alone. And if you add to this the populations of the other Saharasian peoples – close to half a billion Semitic Arabic and Jewish peoples, one and a half billion East-Asian Saharasian peoples (the Chinese,
Japanese and Koreans) plus other smaller peoples who originated from the region,
such as the Turks and the Finno-Ugric speaking peoples – this constitutes a huge
proportion of the human race.
--- Does the last part of the sentence in bold imply that a huge proportion of the human race speak Indo-European languages??? I just thought that for example Chinese is not an Indo-European language and that's why I'm not sure if this is what is says?
Also: "who originated from the region" refers to the region of East Asia, right?
Thanks
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Hi, Around half of the world’s population speak Indo-European languages alone. And if you add to this the populations of the other Saharasian peoples – close to half a billion Semitic Arabic and Jewish peoples, one and a half billion East-Asian Saharasian peoples (the Chinese, Japanese and Koreans) plus other smaller peoples who originated from the region , such as the Turks and the Finno-Ugric speaking peoples – this constitutes a huge proportion of the human race. --- Does the last part of the sentence in bold imply that a huge proportion of the human race speak Indo-European languages???
- Hi, Around half of the world’s population speak Indo-European languages alone.
- And if you add to this the populations of the other Saharasian peoples – close to half a billion Semitic Arabic and Jewish peoples, one and a half billion East-Asian Saharasian peoples (the Chinese, Japanese and Koreans) plus other smaller peoples who originated from the region , such as the Turks and the Finno-Ugric speaking peoples – this constitutes a huge proportion of the human race.
- --- Does the last part of the sentence in bold imply that a huge proportion of the human race speak Indo-European languages???
- No.
- I just thought that for example Chinese is not an Indo-European language and that's why I'm not sure if this is what is says?
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Hi,
Around half of the world’s population speak Indo-European languages alone. And if you add to this the populations of the other Saharasian peoples – close to half a billion Semitic Arabic and Jewish peoples, one and a half billion East-Asian Saharasian peoples (the Chinese, Japanese and Koreans) plus other smaller peoples who originated from the region, such as the Tu
Around half of the world’s population speak Indo-European languages alone. And if you add to this the populations of the other Saharasian peoples – close to half a billion Semitic Arabic and Jewish peoples, one and a half billion East-Asian Saharasian peoples (the Chinese, Japanese and Koreans) plus other smaller peoples who originated from the region, such as the Tu
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Hi Clive
So it's not possible to say why the writer mentions this whole population here?
It's a longer passage. But I don't think it will make it clearer:
After 6,000 years of conquest and colonisation, the Saharasian peoples’
domination of the planet is more or less complete. The peoples who migrated
away from central Asia and the Ne
So it's not possible to say why the writer mentions this whole population here?
It's a longer passage. But I don't think it will make it clearer:
After 6,000 years of conquest and colonisation, the Saharasian peoples’
domination of the planet is more or less complete. The peoples who migrated
away from central Asia and the Ne
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Hi,
This context makes it clear.
He mentions it as evidence that
the Saharasian peoples’ domination of the planet is more or less complete.
Clive
This context makes it clear.
He mentions it as evidence that
the Saharasian peoples’ domination of the planet is more or less complete.
Clive
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