No direct record of Proto-Indo-European has been discovered; its proposed features have been derived by linguistic reconstruction from documented Indo-European languages.

Jan 10, 2026 · Proto-Indo-European (often shortened to PIE) has been linguistically reconstructed from existing Indo-European languages, and no record of it exists as its speakers did not have writing. …

Proto-Indo-European (PIE) is the reconstructed ancestor of the Indo-European languages. It is thought that PIE was spoken during the late Neolithic and Early Bronze Age - about 4500 - 2500 BC, possibly …

Feb 5, 2025 · Ancient-DNA analyses identify a Caucasus Lower Volga people as the ancient originators of Proto-Indo-European, the precursor to the massive Indo-European language family.

This hypothetical, but strongly evidenced language, is called Proto-Indo-European. The first stage of Indo-European study was the broad classification work that established many of the well-accepted …

Proto-Indo-European Lexicon is the generative etymological dictionary of Indo-European languages.

May 5, 2014 · Just as languages such as Spanish, French, Portuguese and Italian are all descended from Latin, Indo-European languages are believed to derive from a hypothetical language known as …

All Indo-European languages are descended from a single prehistoric language, linguistically reconstructed as Proto-Indo-European, spoken sometime during the Neolithic or early Bronze Age …

It was never written down, and it left behind no monuments. We call it Proto-Indo-European (PIE), and it is the great-great-great-grandparent of an astonishing number of modern and ancient languages, …

Sep 26, 2024 · Over the course of the 19th and early 20th centuries, linguists pieced together a hypothetical ancestor language—Proto-Indo-European—through the systematic comparison of …