Proto by Laura Spinney

https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/2/audible/45461 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Proto Author: Laura Spinney Narrator: Emma Spurgin Hussey Format: mp3 Length: 9 hrs and 3 mins Release date: 04-24-25 Ratings: Not rated yet Genres: Archaeology Publisher's Summary: As the planet emerged from the last ice age, a language was born between Europe and Asia, by the Black Sea. This ancient tongue, which we call Proto-Indo-European, soon exploded out of its cradle, changing and fragmenting as it went, until its offspring were spoken from Scotland to China. Today those descendants constitute the world’s largest language family, the thread that connects disparate cultures: Dante’s Inferno to the Rig Veda, The Lord of the Rings to the love poetry of Rumi. Indo-European languages are spoken by nearly half of humanity. How did this happen?