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Proto-Indo-Europeans

  • Kurgan hypothesisOtto Schrader published a work in 1883 that first formulated the idea of steppe nomads as Proto-Indo-European speakers. German scholars Theodor Benfey and…
  • Proto-Indo-EuropeansPhilologist Martin L. West once stated that if an Indo-European language existed, a people who spoke it must have followed.
  • Indo-European migrationsIn 1786, Sir William Jones delivered a Third Anniversary Discourse to the Asiatic Society in India. He noted that Sanskrit shared systematic correspondences…