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Laura Spinney on the Language That Conquered the World

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Where and When Proto-Indo-European Originated

Mike asks about Proto-Indo-European's origins; Laura locates it 5–6,000 years ago near the Black Sea and associates speakers with the Yamnaya steppe culture.

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