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The similarity of the Indo-European family of languages, as well as Semitic, Hamitic and Sino-Asiatic all seem to have some root language at the base.
It is true that it is believed that the Indo-European family has a root language at its base, as does the Afro-Asiatic family (which includes the Semitic and Hamitic languages), and the Sino-Tibetan family as well. There have been some proposals to group several of these, and other, language families together in a larger superfamily, but all of these proposals are extremely controversial among linguists and none are accepted by any large number.
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Certain philologists seem to think that it was likely Sumerian and that other ancient languages including Hebrew, Akkadian, Egpytian and Sanskrit were offshoots of the original Sumerian language.
This may be true, but the general consensus is that Sumerian is a language isolate, with no known affinities to any other known language.
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