Expansion – 2.000 BC

After some unknown prehistorical incident, Proto-Indo-Europeans – or, better, Late Proto-Indo-European dialects – expand in all directions.

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Date: June 3, 2008, 8:36 pm

[...] Europe’s Proto-Indo-European (ca. 2500-2000 BCE); evolved into Proto-Germanic, Proto-Celtic, Proto-Italic, Proto-Baltic and Proto-Slavic. [Archaeological map - expansion of Indo-European peoples] [...]

Comment from John Rager
Date: January 8, 2009, 1:22 am

I do not see a geograhical connection with Sanskrit speaking peoples although Sanskrit would have been in use at this time. If Sanskrit is proto-indo-european it should be included on this map – should it not?

Comment from dduck
Date: February 22, 2009, 11:05 pm

hello john
i believe that sanskrit is a step after, simple proto-indian (ind in this map)
PIE is mother tongue of all IE (within sanskrit, latin, greek, persian etc. )
but i believe that exist more ancent language, proto euroasiatic together uralic-altaic and others

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