Originating from the Proto-Indo-European (PIE) language, historians and linguists since the 19th century have been investigating its origins and spread as there is still a knowledge gap.

In “Proto,” Laura Spinney details the centurieslong effort to reconstruct Proto-Indo-European ... spread and cultural impact of the 1918 influenza epidemic, here demonstrates how the language ...

But Lazaridis noted that researchers have repeatedly been challenged by the broad spread of the ... depending on the language — 1,000 to 1,500 words in Proto-Indo-European.

But researchers have struggled to agree on the origin story of this so-called proto-Indo-European language ... no earlier than 6500 years ago and then spread across Europe and parts of Asia ...

Proto: How One Ancient Language Went Global. By Laura Spinney. Bloomsbury; 352 pages; $29.99. William Collins; £22 Dante did like a category. Famously, he split sinners into different circles in ...

Along the way, they’ve come up with theories about who its original speakers were, where and how they lived, and how their language spread ... which they call Proto-Indo-European, split into ...

These linguistic pioneers were spread from the steppe grasslands ... dive into the Yamnaya's role in disseminating a proto-Indo-European language that predated writing. These nomadic pastoralists ...

The origin of the Indo-European language family has been the “Holy ... Jones speculated that the birthplace of Proto-Indo-European was probably in what is now Iran, with speakers migrating ...

Many decades ago, linguists began trying to reconstruct the proto-Indo-European ... language to catch on. He found it more plausible that early farmers in Anatolia (a region in what is now Turkey ...