Don Ringe on River Valleys of Ukraine

“‘The earliest ancestor of English that is reconstructable by scientifically acceptable methods is Proto-Indo-European, the ancestor of all Indo-European languages. As is usual with protolanguages of the distant past, we can’t say with certainty where and when PIE was spoken, but evidence currently available points strongly to the river valleys of Ukraine in the fifth millennium BC.‘” — Don Ringe

Source: Expanding Mental Models · (Old Europe’s Pre-IE Female Worshipping Culture)

Authoritative linguistic source pinpointing Ukraine. “River valleys of Ukraine in the fifth millennium BC” anchors the homeland claim to specific geography and time.

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