Proto - Spinney, Laura
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The enthralling story of how today's largest language family, spoken by nearly half the world's population, descended from one ancient dialect.

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The enthralling story of how today's largest language family, spoken by nearly half the world's population, descended from one ancient dialect.
Autorenporträt
Laura Spinney is the author of Pale Rider: The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How It Changed the World, which has been translated into more than a dozen languages, and two novels. Her science writing has appeared in The Atlantic , National Geographic, Nature, The Economist, The Guardian, and elsewhere. She lives in Paris.
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A compelling portrait of a people thought lost to time…a remarkable account of humanity's quest to rediscover its ancient origins, using modern methods to illuminate the world as it was before the advent of written history. For Ms. Spinney, this distant and obscure past holds lessons for the future, as the preservation and purity of language is increasingly a contemporary concern.