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Indo-European

Three of every seven humans alive speak an Indo-European language. The family is the most successful in human history, and its discovery is the founding...

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Three of every seven humans alive speak an Indo-European language. The family is the most successful in human history, and its discovery is the founding event of comparative linguistics. Key sections include: Indo- European.; Opening The largest family.; Chapter I The 1786 lecture.; Chapter II How reconstruction works.; Chapter III Grimm's Law.; Chapter IV The ten daughters.; Chapter V Numbers and the family.; Chapter VI The first-order division.; Chapter VII Saussure's prediction.; Chapter VIII What PIE looked like..

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  1. 01Indo- European.
  2. 02Opening The largest family.
  3. 03Chapter I The 1786 lecture.
  4. 04Chapter II How reconstruction works.
  5. 05Chapter III Grimm's Law.
  6. 06Chapter IV The ten daughters.
  7. 07Chapter V Numbers and the family.
  8. 08Chapter VI The first-order division.
  9. 09Chapter VII Saussure's prediction.
  10. 10Chapter VIII What PIE looked like.
  11. 11Chapter IX The two hypotheses.
  12. 12Chapter X The genetic verdict.
  13. 13Chapter XI The horse people.
  14. 14Chapter XII Hittite and the early branch.
  15. 15Chapter XIII The Indic line.
  16. 16Chapter XIV The Hellenic branch.
  17. 17Chapter XV The Italic radiation.
  18. 18Chapter XVI The eastern outlier.
  19. 19Chapter XVII The Atlantic fringe.
  20. 20Chapter XVIII The Slavic expansion.
  21. 21Chapter XIX The most archaic.
  22. 22Chapter XX Computational trees.
  23. 23Chapter XXI Reconstructed myth.
  24. 24Chapter XXII The political shadow.
  25. 25Chapter XXIII The contested alternative.
  26. 26Chapter XXIV What was borrowed.
  27. 27Chapter XXV Twenty essentials.
  28. 28Chapter XXVI Watch & read.
  29. 29Chapter XXVII The empire of speakers.
  30. 30Chapter XXVIII Where the field goes.
  31. 31Chapter XXIX What we can say.
  32. 32The end of the deck.
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