From Wired,
The amount of information carried in the arrangement of words is the same across all languages, even languages that aren’t related to each other. This consistency could hint at a single common ancestral language, or universal features of how human brains process speech.
Interesting piece, but I wonder if its message is true.
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They must be leaving something out. I can see no way that an inflected language such as Latin or German could lose as many bits per word as English.