CULTURE AND LANGUAGE 



shifting sonic and eliminating others. The answer is that conquering 

 peoples, such as the Danubian Aryans and the later Huns and 

 Mongols, who spread east, west, north and south, could suppress the 



Fig. 88b.- — Contour map to show the historic changes in the distribution of the TH 

 sound in Europe since looo B.C. In the intermediate zone of loss the order of loss 

 has followed the direction of the arrow with complete regularity in independent 

 languages. Note the resemblance to the blood group contours (from Darlington 

 1947)- 



aboriginal languages so far as words and arrangements of words 

 (used in ordinary language classification) were concerned. They 

 could not, however, except by their slight genetic contribution, 

 ultimately modify the limited capacity for sound production of the 



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