...Muslim, 1% other Language: 50% Pashtu, 35% Afghan Persian (Dari), 11% Turkic languages (primarily Uzbek and Turkmen), 4% thirty minor languages (prima... ...lican, 26.0% Roman Catholic, 24.3% other Christian Language: English, native languages Infant mortality rate: 10/1,000 (1983) Life expectancy: men 72.... ...; Fon and Yoruba most common vernaculars in south; at least six major tribal languages in north Infant mortality rate: 45/1,000 (1984) Life expectancy... ...% Protes- tant, Gregorian-Armenian, and other Language: Bulgarian; secondary languages closely correspond to ethnic breakdown Infant mortality rate: 2... ...Christian, or other Language: Burmese; minority ethnic groups have their own languages Infant mortality rate: 96/1,000 (1986) Life expectancy: 57 Lite... ... (at least 18 with more than 1 million speakers); 75% Slavic group, 8% other Indo-European, 12% Altaic, 3% Uralian, 2% Caucasian Infant mortality rate...

..., and the perpetuation and refinement of crafts. 3. From Whence Cometh Indo-European Tongues? Did a freshwater lake community flee a saltwater s... ... into the huge depression we know today as the Black Sea? Whence Cometh Indo-European Tongues? In prehistoric times—antedating written history b... ...ir unique language. Those seeds took root and eventually grafted onto the languages of the lands in which they sprouted. Salt sea buried freshwater... ...d. Salt sea buried freshwater sands That process may have spawned the Indo-European family of languages, but lacking the power of the written wo... ...hwater sands That process may have spawned the Indo-European family of languages, but lacking the power of the written word, nobody from that era... ...ount, but it seems consistent with the generally accepted theses that the Indo-European language family (1) evolved from one aboriginal ancestral to... ...er, scatter in all directions and seed the tongues of today’s speakers of Indo-European languages? A line in map connecting the Baltic Sea and Ind... ... all directions and seed the tongues of today’s speakers of Indo-European languages? A line in map connecting the Baltic Sea and India seems to de... ...ms to demark halfway between the ends of the then-known world where those languages had spread—perhaps in just such a scenario. ...

...f Memory-For millennia, mnemonics reigned over commerce, news, entertainment, and the perpetuation and refinement of crafts. -- 3. From Whence Cometh Indo-European Tongues?-Did a freshwater lake community flee a saltwater surge that filled the Black Sea and scatter its language west toward the Atlantic, southeast toward India, and northeast toward the Pacific? -- 4. Script...