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 ...

The Proto-Indo-European language emerged 6,000 years ago around the Black Sea when the Yamnaya, a group of nomadic herders, shifted into mining and farming—and interacted with others who ...

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 ...

“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 ...

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.

“Indo-European languages are often seen as a distinct language group. With this treatise, we aim to demonstrate Tamil’s connection to the Proto-Indo-European (PIE) proto-language, showing how ...

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 ...