How one ancient language spread across Europe and Asia: Laura Spinney on Proto

In this interview, Laura Spinney discusses how Proto-Indo-European spread through migration, social change, and population ...

Laura Spinney: "Widespread literacy has slowed down language evolution"

The author of Proto on the connections between East and West, and what the reconstructed Proto-Indo-European language tells ...
New Scientist

The hunt for the lost ancestral language of Europe and southern Asia

MOTHER. There can scarcely be a more emotive word in the English language. We can imagine children howling it as they wake from nightmares, and centenarians whispering it on their death beds. A 2004 ...
La Brújula Verde

An Eneolithic population that inhabited the Caucasus Mountains and the Lower Volga between 4500 and 3500 BCE was responsible for the diffusion of the Proto-Indo-European language

The origin of the Indo-European language family has been an enigma that has intrigued linguists, historians, and archaeologists for centuries. Despite multiple studies conducted since the 19th century ...
The Guardian

Slice of PIE: a linguistic common ancestor – Science Weekly podcast

Nicola Davis explores Proto-Indo-European, the hypothetical common ancestor of modern Indo-European languages and asks, where did it come from? How and why did it spread? And do languages evolve like ...
The Hindu

The Secret History of Words: Laura Spinney traces history of Proto-Indo-European language

Today nearly half of humanity speaks an Indo-European language. How did that happen? In a conversation with Aienla Ozukum, about her book, ‘Proto: How One Ancient Language Went Global’, journalist ...