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Indo-European languages around 500 AD. The Proto-Indo-European language (PIE) is the ancestor of the Indo-European languages. It is the best-understood of all proto-languages. It was put together by the methods of historical linguistics.
The phonology of the Proto-Indo-European language (PIE) has been reconstructed by linguists, based on the similarities and differences among current and extinct Indo-European languages.
Proto-Indo-European (PIE) is the reconstructed common ancestor of the Indo-European language family. No direct record of Proto-Indo-European exists; its proposed features have been derived by linguistic reconstruction from documented Indo-European languages.
The ancestral population and language, Proto-Indo-Europeans that spoke Proto-Indo-European, are estimated to have lived about 4500 BCE (6500 BP). At some point in time, starting about 4000 BCE (6000 BP), this population expanded through migration and cultural influence .
The Indo-European languages are a family of several hundred related languages and dialects, [2] including most major languages in Europe, the Iranian plateau, and South Asia . Historically, the language family was also important in Anatolia and Central Asia. The earliest Indo-European writing is from the Bronze Age in Anatolian and Mycenaean Greek.
The Proto-Indo-European homeland was the prehistoric linguistic homeland of the Proto-Indo-European language (PIE). From this region, its speakers migrated east and west, and went on to form the proto-communities of the different branches of the Indo-European language family. The most widely accepted proposal about the location of the Proto ...
In the tree model of historical linguistics, a proto-language is a postulated ancestral language from which a number of attested languages are believed to have descended by evolution, forming a language family. Proto-languages are usually unattested, or partially attested at best. They are reconstructed by way of the comparative method. [1]
