Slice of PIE: a linguistic common ancestor – Science Weekly podcast

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Nicola Davis explores Proto-Indo-European, the hypothetical common ancestor of modern Indo-European languages and asks, where did it come from? How and why did it spread? And do languages evolve like genes?