EAN: 9783737411578

ON THE TRAIL OF THE INDO-EUROPEANS FROM NEOLITH...

For more than 3000 years  Indo-European languages have been spoken from India through Persia
and into Europe. Where are the origins of this language family? How and when did its different
linguistic branches emerge? The renowned historical linguist Harald Haarmann provides a graphic
account of what we know today about the origins of Indo-European languages and cultures and how
they came to be so widely disseminated. In this impressive study  he succeeds in drawing
connections between linguistic findings  archaeological discoveries and the latest research
into human genetics and climate history. In addition to linguistic affinities  he shows the
economic  social and religious concepts that the early speakers of Indo-European languages had
in common all the way from the Eastern Mediterranean to the Indus. Particular attention is
devoted to the processes of assimilation with pre-Indo-European languages and civilisations.
The result is a fascinating panorama of early Indo-European globalisation from the end of the
last ice age to the early civilisations in Greece  Italy  Asia Minor  Persia and India.

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