An international team of scientists has used a new automated tool to reconstruct protolanguages – ancient tongues from which modern languages evolved. This images shows an Austronesian phylogenetic tree produced by the system, left, the inset shows a portion of the Oceanic languages, where the Nuclear Polynesian family and Polynesian family are visible, the table shows a sample of reconstructions produced by the system (Alexandre Bouchard-Côté...
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