Using the " comparative method" , though, modern linguists have been able to partially reconstruct the original language from common elements in its daughter languages.

然而，使用“比较法” ，现代语言学家已经能够从其后代语言的共同元素中部分重建原始语言。

Another issue is that languages evolve very gradually, but the tree model makes it look like they evolve over night, like there was a distinct moment in time when a mother language clearly broke off into daughter languages.

另一个问题是语言的演变非常缓慢，但树模型让它看起来像是在一夜之间演变， 就像母语在一个明显的时刻明显地分裂成子语一样。

Several other consonants have also shifted (" d" to " t" , " k" to " h" , " t" to " th" , etc), disguising to some extent the common ancestry of many of the daughter languages of Indo-European.

其他几个辅音也发生了变化（“d”变成了“t”，“k”变成了“h”，“t”变成了“th”等），在某种程度上掩盖了印度语许多后代语言的共同祖先。欧洲的。