How did Indo-European languages evolve and spread?

by fulltimestudent 2 Replies latest social current

  • fulltimestudent
    fulltimestudent

    Approximately 50% of people on this planet speak a language that is classified as Indo-European in origin. The origins and the spread of this language group has long been a source of scholarly discussion.

    This video positing answers to the questions concerning the origin and spread is graphically illustrated in this video:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KdQwalCPNAs

    (Quote): The conventional view places their homeland in the Pontic steppe, which corresponds to modern-day Russia, Ukraine and Kazakhstan. An alternative hypothesis claims that the Proto-Indo-Europeans spread from Anatolia in modern-day Turkey.

    The latter hypothesis was recently backed up by a seminal study led by evolutionary biologist Quentin Atkinson from the University of Auckland in New Zealand, which was published in the journal Science." (unquote)

    More information at:

    http://scroll.in/article/732899/video-an-animated-map-which-explains-how-the-aryans-bought-sanskrit-to-india

  • Phizzy
    Phizzy

    Interesting and educational as ever FTS !

    One language that fascinates me by its survival, despite being surrounded by Indo-European languages, is the Basque collection of dialects. Some feel this language may go back to the Stone Age !

  • sir82
    sir82

    I'll bet if they looked hard enough, they'd find the remains of the Tower of Babel there in Anatolia.


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