02895cam a2200289 4500 2652105808 TxAuBib 20260106120000.0 ||||||s2025||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9781639732609 1639732608 851f1aa2-7d40-4a4b-8354-c81ea9b87690 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 11844793 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Spinney, Laura. Proto [Libby Audiobook] : How One Ancient Language Went Global. Bloomsbury Publishing, 2025. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Listen, Filesize: 249MB. HTML:Bloomsbury presents <i>Proto</i> by Laura Spinney, read by Emma Spurgin-Hussey<br /> <br /> <b>The enthralling story of how today's largest language family, spoken by nearly half the world's population, descended from one ancient dialect.</b><br /> Daughter. Duhitár-. Dustr. Dukte. Listen to these English, Sanskrit, Armenian and Lithuanian words, all meaning the same thing, and you hear echoes of one of history's most unlikely journeys. All four languages—along with hundreds of others, from French and Gaelic, to Persian and Polish—trace their origins to an ancient tongue spoken as the last ice age receded. This language, which we call Proto-Indo-European, was born between Europe and Asia and exploded out of its cradle, fragmenting as it spread east and west. Its last speaker died thousands of years ago, yet Proto-Indo-European lives on in its myriad linguistic offspring and in some of our best loved works of literature, including Dante's <i>Inferno</i> and the <i>Rig Veda</i>, <i>The Lord of the Rings</i> and the love poetry of Rumi. How did this happen?<br /> Acclaimed journalist Laura Spinney set out to answer that question, retracing the Indo-European odyssey across continents and millennia. With her we travel the length of the steppe, navigating the Caucasus, the silk roads and the Hindu Kush. We retrace the epic journeys of nomads and monks, warriors and kings – the ancient peoples who carried these languages far and wide. In the present, Spinney meets the scientists on a thrilling mission to retrieve the lost languages and their speakers: the linguists, archaeologists and geneticists who have reconstructed that ancient diaspora. What they have learned has profound implications for our modern world, because people and their languages are on the move again. <i>Proto</i> is a revelatory portrait of world history in its own words. Language Arts. Nonfiction. History. Science. Media Type: Audiobook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2026-01-06 20:00:02. Spurgin-Hussey, Emma. https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=851f1aa2-7d40-4a4b-8354-c81ea9b87690&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Listen)