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.

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

These proto-languages help explain why modern languages share unexpected similarities, revealing deep connections across cultures and continents.

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 ...

The Proto-Indo-European language emerged 6,000 years ago around the Black Sea when the Yamnaya, a group of nomadic herders, shifted into mining and farming—and interacted with others who ...

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.

Christians hold that the eight survivors of The Great Flood (Noah and his wife, their three sons, and their wives) disembarked the Ark on Mount Ararat and then migrated to ...

The language that changed the world Around half of the world’s population speaks a descendant of Proto-Indo-European. Most know little about it ...

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