Hunting the origin of 40 per cent of the languages spoken today is a huge feat, but Laura Spinney's new book makes an ...

Proto: How One Ancient Language Went Global by Laura Spinney is an exploration of how hundreds of languages share a single ...

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 ...

New insights regarding the origin of Proto-Indo-European languages come forth due to a study. The study pushes back the ...

Yet, their language would one day become the foundation ... “They are the best candidate for the population that spoke Proto-Indo-European.” Not everyone is convinced though.