Over the last couple of hundred years, linguists have figured out a lot about the first Indo-European language, including many of the words it used and some of the grammatical rules that governed it.
Along the way, they’ve come up with theories about who its original speakers were, where and how they lived, and how their language spread so widely.
🔗: https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/society/2024/origin-spread-indo-european-languages
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