I’ve been reading about PIE and i’m confused. As I understand, it is assumed to be the language spoken by Europeans 6,000 years ago. No written record of the language has ever been found so the language has been reconstructed through seemingly arbitrary means. So, In all likeliness actual PIE sounded very different. What makes this language (as it exists today) useful? This is essentially a conlang that is too complicated to learn. What am I missing? Sorry if I’m coming off as negative. I find PIE both confusing and fascinating.
Yea, it’s a great introduction. I have his History of the Alphabet course, too.
Would’ve enjoyed having him as a prof!
The History of English podcast is really interesting too. Probably nothing you don’t already know, but good to pass on to people asking questions.
I wasn’t aware of this podcast, so thank you for the rec!