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How did the language you are reading come to exist? The Indo-European family of languages covers most of Europe, the Iranian plateau, northern India and parts o ...
Linguistics, working on sound shifts, has given us about 1,600 words in Proto-Indo-European, which no one has spoken in over 5,000 years. Archeology has identified cultures and their movements ...
Laura Spinney’s “Proto: How One Ancient Language Went Global” explores the roots of language and how it spread and changed across time and place.
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In “Proto,” Laura Spinney details the centurieslong effort to reconstruct Proto-Indo-European (PIE), what linguists believe to be the mother tongue of a diverse constellation of languages from ...
For Jones’s “common source” now has a name: “Proto-Indo-European” (PIE). It was first spoken by as little as a few dozen people around the Black Sea then, roughly 5,000 years ago, spread ...
Tracing Indo-European’s origins Jones speculated that the birthplace of Proto-Indo-European was probably in what is now Iran, with speakers migrating east towards India and west towards Europe.