By Thomas V. Gamkrelidze and V. V. Ivanov Scientific American, March 1990, P.110 The Authors The Indo-European Superfamily of Languages Grimm's Law of Lautverschiebung ( Sound Shift ) The Place of Armenia and the Armenian Language The Words Describing Agricultural Technology The Landscape Described by the Indo-European Protolanguage The Terminology for Wheeled Transport and Smelting of Metals ...

Indo-European Roots Index. The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000 ...

Only your etymologist knows!) About 6, 000 years ago a tribe of people living in the Eurasian Plain north of the Dnepr River in what is now the Ukraine, spoke a language from which virtually all the languages of present-day Europe and India developed. It is commonly referred to as 'Indo-European'. As the original tribe expanded, various segments of it moved farther and farther away from the ...

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Proto-Indo-European (PIE) PIE refers to the putative ancestor of the Indo-European language family, or to our reconstruction of it. There is no clear agreement on exactly where or when the speakers of PIE lived, but a fairly popular theory places them at approximately 3000-4000 BC in what is currently the Russian steppe north of the Black Sea. PIE is usually reconstructed as having had three ...

KURGAN CULTURE I'm pleased and astonished to say that this page has been linked to by British television Channel 4 Great Excavations . To find similar pages, go here. The Kurgan people were an Indo-European culture existing during the fifth, fourth, and third millennia BC; they lived in northern Europe, from Russia across Germany, and various authorities have mounted a case for them being THE ...

StudyWeb The Ergativic Stage of Early Proto-Indoeuropean Table of Contents Introduction Syntactic structure Origin of the verbal endings Original system of gender and case The phonetic law -CnT# ...