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The Early History of Indo-European Languages
Authors: Thomas V. Gamkrelidze and V. V. Ivanov. (Scientific American, March 1990). Article by two well-known linguists, presenting a controversial theory about the origin and development of the IE languages.
http://www.armenianhighland.com/main.html
Indo-European Etymological Dictionary (IED)
Ambitious project based at the Leiden University (The Netherlands). It contains etymological data for some individual Indo-European (IE) languages, as well as for some branches of the family.
http://www.indoeuropean.nl/
Did Indo-European Languages Spread Before Farming?
Journal article by Jonathan Adams and Marcel Otte scheduled to be published in "Current Anthropology" that challenges the dominant theory placing Indo-European dispersal in the Bronze Age.
http://www.esd.ornl.gov/projects/qen/Indo2...
The Spread of the Indo-Europeans
Scholarly article by Frederik Kortlandt on the dating of the spreading of the Indo-Europeans based on information obtained from both linguistic and archaeological research.
http://www.kortlandt.nl/publications/art11...
Indo-European and the Indo-Europeans
Article by Indo-European scholar Calver Watkins, providing a survey of Indo-European linguistics, and how this field of study sheds light on the homeland of the first speakers of Indo-European. [From The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition, 2000].
http://www.bartleby.com/61/8.html
Indo-European: Possible Homeland & Migrations Slideshow
Introductory page on the homeland problem, ans slideshow of homeland and possible migrations after mainstream opinion.
http://www.hjholm.de/
Kurgan Culture
Detailed description of the archaeological findings associated with the "Kurgan culture", a 5th-3th millennium BC civilization north of the Black Sea, whose inhabitants are widely thought to have been the speakers of Proto-Indo-European (PIE). Includes a partial reconstructed PIE word list.
http://www.iras.ucalgary.ca/~volk/sylvia/K...
Indo-European Roots Index
Comprehensive listing of the approx. 600 Indo-European roots that have derivatives in English, with links to the corresponding entries in the online edition of the "American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition" (2000).
http://www.bartleby.com/61/IEroots.html
Proto-Indo-European (PIE)
A good, if rather brief, overview of the Proto-Indo-European language, with outlines of some of its daughter branches. The author is Marisa Lohr, a Research Fellow at Trinity College, University of Cambridge (England).
http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~marisal...
The Ergativic Stage of Early Proto-Indoeuropean
Web version of a doctoral thesis by Hans-Joachim Alscher concerning the origin of the Indo-European nominal declension and gender systems. Includes a discussion of the possible relationship between the Indo-European and Afro-Asiatic language families.
http://www.dabis.at/Anwender.htm/Alscher/c...
Piotr Gasiorowski's Home Page
Survey of the author's ideas about Proto Indo-European phonetics and grammar.
http://www.geocities.com/caraculiambro/
Illyrian Language
Contains material on the history of the Illyrian language, and on the putative origins of Albanian and Avar. However, it also contains the totality of Pokorny's Indo-European Etymological Dictionary, with some corrections, and with glosses translated from German into English.
http://www.geocities.com/protoillyrian/
Linguistics: Historical Linguistics
A light-hearted discussion of Indo-European and other linguistics topics, from the staff in the Linguistics Program at Bucknell University (Lewisburg, PA, USA).
http://www.facstaff.bucknell.edu/rbeard/hi...
Proto-Indo-European Language Demonstration and Exploration Website
Basic overview of the Indo-European language family, with particular attention to its major members. From the College of Liberal and Fine Arts (COLFA) at the University of Texas at San Antonio.
http://colfa.utsa.edu/drinka/pie/
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