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Word of Mouth: The Language That Changed the World

Series 1779, episode 3

Michael Rosen hears the fascinating story of the origin of all Indo-European languages from Laura Spinney, the author of Proto: How One Ancient Language Went Global. Today, nearly half of humanity speaks an Indo-European language and Laura has been investigating how that came to be

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Michael Rosen
Laura Spinney