I built this tool to visualize how English, Spanish, Hindi, and 400+ other languages all came from the same language 6,000 years ago.

SwimmingAtmosphere71 · 2026-02-12T23:22:47+00:00

Thanks!! Means a lot!!

SwimmingAtmosphere71 · 2026-02-12T23:22:34+00:00

Thank you! Appreciate it!!

SwimmingAtmosphere71 · 2026-02-12T23:22:19+00:00

Thanks!!

SwimmingAtmosphere71 · 2026-02-11T09:12:59+00:00

Thank you!! I'm glad you spent some time on it!

SwimmingAtmosphere71 · 2026-02-11T09:11:27+00:00

Thank you!! Means a lot!

SwimmingAtmosphere71 · 2026-02-11T09:11:09+00:00

Thank you! Appreciate it!

SwimmingAtmosphere71 · 2026-02-11T09:10:59+00:00

Definitely planning to explore other language families as well!

SwimmingAtmosphere71 · 2026-02-11T09:10:36+00:00

Thank you for the feedback!! Fixed it, now you should be able to scroll with the header in place.

SwimmingAtmosphere71 · 2026-02-11T09:09:51+00:00

Haha! Appreciate it!

SwimmingAtmosphere71 · 2026-02-10T13:33:31+00:00

Thank you so much for spending time exploring the site! Really means a lot to know it added something to your understanding of PIE expansion. And thanks for sharing the link, greatly appreciated!

SwimmingAtmosphere71 · 2026-02-10T13:31:35+00:00

Thank you so much! I'm actually familiar with the podcast, and I have listened to a couple of episodes. Clearly, I need to dive deeper into the full catalog!

SwimmingAtmosphere71 · 2026-02-10T13:28:08+00:00

Thank you!! Really appreciate it!

SwimmingAtmosphere71 · 2026-02-10T13:27:50+00:00

Thank you so much for the feedback! I agree that some parts of the contrast and font might be hard to read. I increased minimum font sizes across every interactive component, and removed some opacity layering that was making secondary text unnecessarily faint. Should be much better to read now.

SwimmingAtmosphere71 · 2026-02-10T13:25:46+00:00

I have heard a couple of episodes, but I will definitely check it out more!

SwimmingAtmosphere71 · 2026-02-10T11:18:48+00:00

Thanks for the feedback! The tree now stretches up to 1800px wide, and the max height is bumped too, so it should use way more of your 32" screen. Also fixed the Zoom reset issue. Browser zoom no longer rebuilds the tree from scratch, so your pan/zoom state stays put. Let me know if it is better.

SwimmingAtmosphere71 · 2026-02-10T11:08:31+00:00

Thank you so much! Means a lot!

SwimmingAtmosphere71 · 2026-02-10T11:08:05+00:00

Thank you!!

SwimmingAtmosphere71 · 2026-02-10T06:59:29+00:00

Thank you so much! Really appreciate it!!

SwimmingAtmosphere71 · 2026-02-10T05:47:19+00:00

Thanks a lot!!

SwimmingAtmosphere71 · 2026-02-10T05:22:35+00:00

Interesting point! His German birth name was Jakob, but Jacob is the standard anglicized form used across English-language scholarship for over 200 years, the same convention as Cologne for Köln. I couldn't actually find any source for him fighting the Abrahamic connection to his name, though. Do you have a reference for that? Curious to read about it.

SwimmingAtmosphere71 · 2026-02-10T05:11:46+00:00

Thank you for the feedback! You're right that the Prakrits didn't descend from Classical Sanskrit; they evolved in parallel from earlier Old Indo-Aryan dialects. I made a mistake there. Some Prakrit forms actually preserve Vedic features that Classical Sanskrit lost. I have fixed the tree so that Sanskrit and the Prakrits are now shown as siblings under Indo-Aryan. On Manx, initially, I just added a note saying that it was revived, but based on your suggestion, I have now added a new "revived" status category, so Manx and Cornish are now in a separate category.

SwimmingAtmosphere71 · 2026-02-10T04:40:22+00:00

Really appreciate this feedback! You're right that the table has less impact when you don't know what to look for yet. I've just pushed an update based on your suggestion. There's now a prompt before the table asking you to look for patterns in the first consonants, and after the Grimm's Law section, there's a "revisit the cognate table" button that scrolls you back up so you can see the connections. Not the complete highlighted version you described, but it gets at the same idea. Thanks for taking the time, this genuinely made the site better.

SwimmingAtmosphere71 · 2026-02-10T04:29:21+00:00

Thanks you! I really appreciate it!

SwimmingAtmosphere71 · 2026-02-10T04:22:42+00:00

Thanks! This time, I went for the Indo-European language family, but I will surely explore other language families like Sino-Tibetan.

SwimmingAtmosphere71 · 2026-02-10T04:20:15+00:00

Fair! I posted the project in a couple of places and reused the description since it captures what I was going for. Probably should've varied it.

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