Ep. 244 | The History of Xinjiang (Part 1)
The China History Podcast
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The Language of the Proto Indo Europeans
The language they spoke was proto indo european. It is the mother of all these languages such as spanish, english and portuguese. They came from that part of the vast eurasian step north of the black and caspian seas. From there they spread out to the north, into the interior of russia, siberia and mongolia,. westward to europe, south and east to india and thibet, and south towards iran and into central asia. These people ended up in shinchang too - around four thousand years ago.
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