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The English Word That Hasn't Changed in Sound or Meaning in 8,000 Years
• arcleinToday, roughly half the world's population speaks an Indo-European language. That family includes 440 languages spoken across the globe, including English. The word yoga, for example, which comes from Sanskrit, the language of ancient India, is a distant relative of the English word yoke. The nature of this relationship puzzled historical linguists for two centuries.