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The epic story 'Lively and fascinating. I loved it' David Bellos,
author of Is That a Fish in your Ear?'A history of the world in
microcosm ... I highly recommend' Douglas Preston, author of The
Lost City of the Monkey God'A real detective story ...a tour de
force' David Crystal, author of A Date with LanguageOne ancient
language transformed our world. This is its story.As the planet
emerged from the last ice age, a language was born between Europe
and Asia. This ancient tongue, which we call Proto-Indo-European,
soon exploded out of its cradle, changing and fragmenting as it
went, until its offspring were spoken from Scotland to China.Today
those descendants constitute the world's largest language family,
the thread that connects disparate cultures: Dante's Inferno to the
Rig Veda, The Lord of the Rings to the love poetry of Rumi.
Indo-European languages are spoken by nearly half of humanity. How
did this happen?Laura Spinney set out to answer that question,
retracing the Indo-European odyssey across continents and
millennia.With her we travel the length of the steppe, navigating
the Caucasus, the silk roads and the Hindu Kush. We follow in the
footsteps of nomads and monks, Amazon warriors and lion kings - the
ancient peoples who spread these languages far and wide. In the
present, Spinney meets the scientists on a thrilling mission to
retrieve those lost languages: the linguists, archaeologists and
geneticists who have reconstructed this ancient diaspora.What they
have learned has vital implications for our modern world, as people
and their languages are on the move again. Proto is a revelatory
portrait of world history in its own words. how one ancient
language went global, and the scientists on a quest through deep
time to uncover it, from the author of international bestseller
Pale Rider
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HarperCollins Publishers ,
Laura Spinney
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HarperCollins Publishers,
Laura Spinney
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Slovart
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