Linguists believe that a large portion of the world’s languages trace their roots back to one common ancestor: ...

Russell Gray and Quentin Atkinson propose that a proto-Indo-European language arose in Anatolia 9000 years ago and spread out from there together with farming (7 September, p 32). I don’t really ...

How 'mother tongue' spawned hundreds of modern languages Proto-Indo-European was last spoken between approximately 4,500 and 2,500 BC by our ancestors from all over Europe and Asia.

Proto Indo-European is thought to be one of the precursor to languages as diverse as English and Hindi. Google Translate Languages are constantly evolving, spawning offshoots and mashups and cross ...

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 ...

In 1868, German linguist August Schleicher used reconstructed Proto-Indo-European vocabulary to create a fable in order to hear some approximation of PIE. Called “The Sheep and the Horses” . . .