In the case of Proto-Indo-European, lively debate over the date and place from which the people initially dispersed who became Hindi speakers in Delhi, Irish speakers in Dublin, and English ...

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 ...

“They’ve been able to reconstruct — depending on the language — 1,000 to 1,500 words in Proto-Indo-European. “If the Proto-Indo-Europeans had words for axles and wagons, it tells us ...

evolved from a common tongue called the Proto-Indo-European, whose origin has been a mystery. In the new study, researchers at Vienna University analysed DNA samples of 435 people from ...

One important question is this: what do we know about the speakers of proto-languages? In the case of Proto-Indo-European, lively debate over the date and place from which the people initially ...