Proto-Indo-European language

Indo-European languages around 500 AD

The Proto-Indo-European language (PIE) is the ancestor of the Indo-European languages.[1]

It is the best understood of all proto-languages.[2] It was put together by the methods of historical linguistics.[3]

  1. Mallory J.P. & Adams D.Q. 2006. The Oxford introduction to Proto-Indo-European and the Proto-Indo-European world. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-929668-5
  2. Ivanov, Vyacheslav V.& Gamkrelidze, Thomas 1990. The early history of Indo-­European languages. Scientific American 262, March.
  3. Beekes Robert 1995. Comparative Indo-European linguistics: an introduction. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. ISBN 90-272-2150-2 (Europe), ISBN 1-55619-504-4 (US)

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