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  1. Proto-Indo-European ( PIE) is the reconstructed common ancestor of the Indo-European language family. [1] No direct record of Proto-Indo-European exists; its proposed features have been derived by linguistic reconstruction from documented Indo-European languages. [2]

  2. linguistic reconstruction. In language: Changes through time. …referred to as “Indo-European,” “Proto-Indo-European,” the “common parent language,” or the “original language” ( Ursprache) of the family. But it must be emphasized that, whatever it may have been like, it was just one language among many and of no special status ...

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  4. Below is a partial list of proto-languages that have been reconstructed, ... Proto-Basque; Proto-Indo-European. Proto-Anatolian; Proto-Albanian; Proto-Greek; Proto ...

  5. Indo-European languages - Characteristics, Developments, & Dialects: As Proto-Indo-European was splitting into the dialects that were to become the first generation of daughter languages, different innovations spread over different territories. Indo-Iranian, Balto-Slavic, Armenian, and Albanian agree in changing the palatal stops *ḱ, *ǵ, and *ǵh into spirants (s, ś, th, etc.) or ...

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