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本文发表在和《时代》杂志齐名、在美国发行很大的《美国新闻和世界导报》1990年11月一期的周刊上。用插图说明世界各地语言的分布情况。从插图上看,它只触及的所谓‘母语’区域的西北角,说是‘原始印欧语’系统的一支,从冰岛一路往东,囊括整个欧洲,英语、日耳曼语、斯堪的纳维亚语、罗曼语、拉丁语、希腊语、斯拉夫语系统不在话下,也包括雅利安亚美尼亚语、波斯语、梵语、和印度的印地语。苦茄拉帝语、乌尔都语、旁遮普语、信德语、孟加拉语。这样的分类最令人不服的地方,是把这印欧系统扩大到讲阿拉伯语的地
This article is published in the same series as Time magazine, in the weekly issue of the November 1990 issue of the Great American News and World Herald. Illustrate the distribution of languages around the world with illustrations. From the illustration, it touches just the northwest corner of the so-called ’mother tongue’ area, saying that it is one of the ’original Indo-European’ systems that run all the way from Iceland to the entire European, English, Germanic, Scandinavian Vladivostok, Romance, Latin, Greek, Slavic systems, but also Aryan Armenian, Persian, Sanskrit, and Indian Hindi. Lahuti, Urdu, Punjabi, Sindhi, Bengali. The most insidious part of such a classification is to extend this Indo-European system to Arabic-speaking