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

It’s really gratifying to see that a book on a subject that some may find obscure is getting a lot of attention from writers ...

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.

We know this word came from Celtic because, of the three branches, only Celtic converted the ē in Proto-Indo-European h3rēg’s to an ī (the Italic branch kept the ē, as in Latin rēx).

The Indo-European family is the largest, especially when counting second-language speakers. It spans 12 branches with historic roots stretching from northwestern China to Western Europe. According to ...

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

Among the arresting things that Reich et al. argue is that we should speak of a precursor to Proto-Indo-European: Proto-Indo-Anatolian, which they believe split sometime between 4300 and 3500 B.C.

Harvard researchers traced the origins of the vast Indo-European language family to the Caucasus-Lower Volga region, identifying the ancestral population that gave rise to more than 400 languages ...

These language families, including Germanic, Indo-Iranian and Celtic, evolved from a common tongue called the Proto-Indo-European, whose origin has been a mystery.

The only branch of Indo-European language (IE) that had not exhibited any steppe ancestry previously was Anatolian, including Hittite, probably the oldest branch to split away, uniquely preserving ...

The Indo-European languages form a linguistic family that encompasses more than 400 languages, including major groups such as the Germanic, Romance, Slavic, Indo-Iranian, and Celtic languages. These ...

The findings challenge earlier assumptions and provide new evidence on how these languages, spoken by nearly half of the world’s population today, evolved from a common ancestor. Tracing the roots of ...