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.

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 ...

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 ...

They agree that the original language, which they call Proto-Indo-European, split into 10 or 11 main branches, two of which are now extinct.

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 ...