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Proto: How One Ancient Language Went Global

By Laura Spinney
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By Laura Spinney
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Acclaimed journalist Laura Spinney embarks a mission to trace the ancient tongue that binds hundreds of modern Indo-European languages, uncovering sweeping revelations about communcation and connection.

Named a Best Book of 2025 by the Guardian, Scientific American, and the Washington Independent Review of Books

Proto is a revelatory portrait of world history in its own words.

Daughter. Duhitár-. Dustr. Dukte. Listen to these English, Sanskrit, Armenian and Lithuanian words, all meaning the same thing, and you hear echoes of one of history's most unlikely journeys. All four languages-along with hundreds of others, from French and Gaelic, to Persian and Polish-trace their origins to an ancien...

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