# Indo-European

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Category: Languages
Slides: 32
Updated: 2026-05-15T22:18:26.815Z
Tags: languages, indo, european

## Summary

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..

## Slide Outline

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

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