Proto: How One Ancient Language Went Global By Laura Spinney William Collins (distributed in India by HarperCollins India), ...

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.

These proto-languages help explain why modern languages share unexpected similarities, revealing deep connections across cultures and continents. Ancient Writing Systems: Decoding the Human Mind.

How a Scientific Revolution is Rewriting Their Story is its starting point, specifically, determining where it was. He hopes ...

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 ...

Proto: How One Ancient Language Went Global Laura Spinney. Bloomsbury, $29.99 (336p) ISBN 978-1-63973-258-6 ...

Proto-Sapiens refers to a theoretical common language spoken by the earliest humans. Discover how scientists and linguists reconstruct what we may have sounded like tens of thousands of years ago.

Thinking about proto-languages is not everyone’s cup of tea, but surely only a dullard would deny the inherent wonder of being able to peer into the linguistic past in this way. Of course such ...

The world’s languages were not a babel but a brotherhood. “Proto”, a new book by Laura Spinney, a journalist who has written for this newspaper, offers a biography of that brotherhood—or ...