Proto-Indo-Europeans

proto-language of the Indo-European languages

hypothetical racial grouping

The Proto-Indo-Europeans are a postulated prehistoric ethnolinguistic group of Eurasia who spoke Proto-Indo-European (PIE), the reconstructed common ancestor of the Indo-European language family.

theory of Indo-European origin

hypothesis

hypothesis that Proto-Indo-European society had 3 castes—priests, warriors, commoners—corresponding to the 3 functions of the sacral, the martial and the economic

migrations out of the Pontic-Caspian steppe

prehistoric urheimat of the Proto-Indo-European language

hypothesis in historical linguistics that the Urheimat of proto-Indo-European is in the Caucacus

reconstructed culture of Proto-Indo-Europeans

outdated linguistic and archaeological theory