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 ...

These loans, which are still in use today, are older than the Indo-European ... Italo-Celtic language spread with it, the thinking goes, then where the path forked, the nascent Proto-Italic ...

Spinney makes the case that PIE’s viral spread is, and I quote, “easily the most important event of the last five millennia ...

According to Spinney’s research, Proto-Indo-European was originally spoken by just a small group living near the Black Sea. Around 5,000 years ago, their language began to spread rapidly in all ...

All three of these languages - and hundreds more - share a single ancient ancestor, spread by ancient peoples far and wide. Today, nearly half of humanity speaks an Indo-European language. But, Proto ...

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 ...

Show more 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 ...

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