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A good book on this is Proto by Laura Spinney, it covers all the branches of Proto-Indo-European and also postulates that the entire family may have started from as few as a hundred speakers who were steppe nomads, which is mindboggling if true.
And then Hello became Allo in French and Alo in Spanish, which is only used as a greeting over the phone and never as a general greeting.
I'm never going to look at a <div> the same
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