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  1. Proto-Indo-Europeansnoun

    Plural form of Proto-Indo-European.

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  1. Proto-Indo-Europeans

    The Proto-Indo-Europeans were the speakers of the Proto-Indo-European language, a reconstructed prehistoric language of Eurasia. Knowledge of them comes chiefly from the linguistic reconstruction, along with material evidence from archaeology and archaeogenetics. According to some archaeologists, PIE speakers cannot be assumed to have been a single, identifiable people or tribe, but were a group of loosely related populations ancestral to the later, still partially prehistoric, Bronze Age Indo-Europeans. This view is held especially by archaeologists who posit an original homeland of vast extent and immense time depth. However, this view is not shared by linguists, as proto-languages generally occupy small geographical areas over a very limited time span, and are generally spoken by close-knit communities such as a single small tribe. The Proto-Indo-Europeans in this sense likely lived during the late Neolithic, or roughly the 4th millennium BCE. Mainstream scholarship places them in the forest-steppe zone immediately to the north of the western end of the Pontic-Caspian steppe in Eastern Europe. Some archaeologists would extend the time depth of PIE to the middle Neolithic or even the early Neolithic, and suggest alternative location hypotheses.

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of proto-indo-europeans in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of proto-indo-europeans in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

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