Where and when was the homeland of the Indo-Europeans? J. P. Mallory is the man to find it.

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.

How Migration and Soft Power Made Indo-European Languages Dominant History shows that linguistics evolve in unpredictable ways — and that the supremacy of English is not guaranteed.

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).

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

Tamil Nadu CM M.K. Stalin releases first volume of Tamil-Indo-European etymological dictionary, part of 12-volume project with Oxford University Press.

From a purely linguistic point of view, then, Proto-Indo-Anatolian is for these researchers the equivalent of what the rest of us are used to speaking of as Proto-Indo-European.

In the case of Proto-Indo-European, lively debate over the date and place from which the people initially dispersed who became Hindi speakers in Delhi, Irish speakers in Dublin, and English ...