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How One Ancient Language Went Global
Laura Spinney . 2025 . Aloha Lib 417.7 SPINNEY Laura
- 282 pages text/illustration, 22 pages bibliography, 21 pages end notes, 16 pages index
- the index is essential though incomplete; Spinney reintroduces nouns and placenames 200 pages after a first appearance
- This book is about the evolution of language and the migration of languages/cultures
Maps
p4-5 The Peak of the Last Ice Age, 20 KY ago, Mercator 75W to "195E", 70S to 80N
- ice sheets, lower sea level, land bridges Asia to North America, Europe to Britain/Island
p33-34 Lingua Obscura, undated, 31E to 40E, 20N to 49N
p60-61 Proto-Indo-European, undated, 9W to 88E, 8N to 64N, migration of Yamnaya to Britain, Spain, Denmark, India, Altai mountains though the Eurasian Steppe
p90-91 Anatolian, undated, 4E to 41E, 32N to 42N
p118-119 Tocharian, undated, 66E to 97E, ? ?
p142-143 Celtic, Germanic, and Italic, 500BC
p180-181 Indo-Iranian
p210-211 Baltic and Slavic
p234-235 Albanian, Armenian, Greek
p256-257 The Indo-European Speaking-World Today almost everywhere besides Africa, Arabia, Mongolia, China, Japan, and Southeast Asia
- p07 5kya, Proto-Indo-European "exploded out of Black Sea cradle" eastward westward, Ireland to India
- p09 300kya, Homo sapiens arose in Africa, vocal tracts, cognition
- p09 60kya, Homo sapiens walked out of Africa with tools and speech
- p10 14kya, glaciers recede
- p10 human population 10M, 10k spoken languages, ~1k each
p10 vertical bilingualism people higher up with their own language also learn the language lower down, perhaps for marketing (reason not mentioned by Spinney)
- p11 Official languages grew, 1M speakers 5kya
- p12 writing emerged 6000 YA, confusing 30 minutes to midnight clock analogy
p13 Dante Divine Comedy Tuscan dialect standard literary language of western Europe
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