How One Ancient Language Went Global” explores the roots of language and how it spread and changed across time and place.

The Italic languages had already diverged into Latin, Oscan, Umbrian and possibly Venetic – a language which, as its name ...

The Indo-European language family is one of the most influential and widespread in human history. From the ancient civilizations of India and Greece to modern global languages like English and Spanish ...

Hittite writing wasn’t unlocked until 1915, when a linguist in Prague named Bedřich Hrozný realized that the unearthed tablets were written in an Indo-European language—the earliest known ...

Both eastern and western dialect clusters share the label “Indo-European” because, by the time linguists noticed the family resemblance in the 18th century, they were spoken from Europe to the ...

Michael Rosen hears the fascinating story of the origin of all Indo-European languages from Laura Spinney, the author of Proto: How One Ancient Language Went Global. Today, nearly half of humanity ...

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 ...

Today, nearly half of humanity speaks an Indo-European language. Show more Michael Rosen hears the fascinating story of the origin of all Indo-European languages from Laura Spinney, the author of ...

two naval warships from the European Union (EU) Navy, ESPS Reina Sofia from Spain and ITS Antonio Marceglia from Italy, have arrived in India, marking a significant milestone in Indo-European ...