This Chapter's "Appreciating Anthropology" Section Discusses Research on the Ancient

question 19

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This chapter's "Appreciating Anthropology" section discusses research on the ancient syntax of a "proto-human language," thought to be ancestral to all contemporary languages. This research suggests that

• A) the proto-language sounded similar to modern-day English.
• B) subject-verb-object ordering is very rare in languages spoken today.
• C) word ordering within a language is uniform across the world.
• D) word ordering has remained constant over time, not changing when languages branch off from their mother tongues.
• E) the proto-language sounded similar to the speech of Yoda in "Star Wars."

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