For example, English falls into the Germanic family, and the Germanic family falls into the Indo-European proto-language family.

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.

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 ...

Harvard researchers traced the origins of the vast Indo-European language family to the Caucasus-Lower Volga region, identifying the ancestral population that gave rise to more than 400 languages ...

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James Clackson, a linguist at Cambridge University, also finds the early date for Proto-Indo-European, and other details of the tree, unconvincing.

A New Look At Our Linguistic Roots Linguists and archaeologists have argued for decades about where, and when, the first Indo-European languages were spoken, and what kind of lives those first ...

A new look at our linguistic roots A controversial analytic technique offers new answers for Indo-European languages.

The sprachbund with the biggest number of speakers being the Indo-European one. This does indicate an evolution of language but only within the history of humankind itself, largely disconnected ...