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This project investigates the origins and spread of Indo-European languages in Europe by analyzing prehistoric loanwords and their cultural implications. It aims to clarify the historical debate surrounding the influence of early Bronze Age cultures and the spread of agriculture on language development.
Today, Europe’s linguistic landscape is shaped almost entirely by a single language family:
Indo-European.
Even by the dawn of history, a patchwork of Indo-European subgroups, Germanic, Celtic, Italic, Baltic, Slavic and Greek, was covering the continent, and over the centuries, these subgroups evolved into the modern European languages, among which Russian, Italian, German, Lithuanian and Swedish, as well as the global lingua francas French, Spanish, and English.The Indo-Europeanization of Euro…
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