Tag: Indo

The complications start in what’s called the “Kurgan hypothesis”, which postulates that the gigantic geographic spread of the Indo-European languages can all be traced back to a single origin point, where Proto-Indo-European was first spoken. This origin is identified in the archae...

The idea of the Indo-Europeans originated in linguistics, around the end of the 18th century, when the wide and undeniable links between Romance, Germanic, Celtic, Slavic, Iranian, Sanskritic and several smaller language families were recognized. This led to the assertion that these languages must&r...