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Identifies bronze-age riders from the Eurasian steppe grasslands as the original speakers of Proto-Indo-European, from which many modern languages are derived.
Synopsis
Roughly half the world's population speaks languages derived from a shared linguistic source known as Proto-Indo-European. But who were the early speakers of this ancient mother tongue, and how did they manage to spread it around the globe? This title reveals how their domestication of horses and use of the wheel spread language.