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  "id": 18146409,
  "title": "Ancient DNA traces origins of English, German and Scandinavian languages",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/04/ancient-dna-traces-origins-of-english-german-and-scandinavian",
  "topic": "science",
  "section": "Science",
  "published": "2026-11-04T16:00:24.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Phys.org",
    "slug": "phys-org",
    "url": "https://phys.org/news/2026-11-ancient-dna-english-german-scandinavian.html"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "English, German, Dutch and the Scandinavian languages are all members of the Germanic language group, spoken by hundreds of millions of people today. But where did these languages come from?",
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  "coverage": {
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    "also_reported_by": [
      {
        "outlet": "Nature",
        "title": "Ancient DNA charts spread of Celtic and Germanic languages",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/04/ancient-dna-charts-spread-of-celtic-and-germanic-languages",
        "published": "2026-11-04T00:00:00.000Z"
      }
    ]
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}