Indo-European: The Language Family That Went Global

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Jul 23, 202674:45Society & Culture

In this Conflicted Conversation, Thomas meets Laura Spinney, author of Proto: How One Language Went Global, the story of the Proto-Indo-European language and its descendants, which are spoken today by half of humanity. L...

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