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Mark Mandel wrote at 2008-08-14 20:36:22
(First, a spelling correction: They are called Semitic languages, with an "i" in the middle, not an "e".)
We don't inherit languages from the parents in our DNA, we learn them, usually from our parents. When people move to a place where a different language is spoken, generally they learn the "new" language. They probably continue to speak the "old" language at home, but their children grow up speaking the new language more than the old one, and their grandchildren or great-grandchildren don't speak the "old" language at all. This is how we have people of many different genetic backgrounds speaking the same language.
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