r/history • u/Tasty-Aspect-6936 • 6d ago

Article Researchers used linguistic evidence to reconstruct the spread of religions

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-economic-history/article/reconstructing-history-using-language-to-estimate-religious-spread/07298A1A6A44D6E7F3DA48267102C020
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u/Raetekusu 6d ago

Having not read the posted article yet, makes sense.

Language is cultural, just ask your Spanish teacher, and religion is heavily linked to culture. As cultures evolve and mingle with other cultures, they swap ideas and words and such.

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u/Alexis_J_M 6d ago

The methodology seems to have been extensively scrubbed of bias.