There absolutely was an Indo-European homeland and it was absolutely not like anything that white supremacists have usually imagined it to be.

So the racial purity or phenotypic ideals that white supremacists tie to Proto-Indo-Europeans are empirically wrong. One can oppose their ideas for a variety of political or moral reasons, but inasmuch as they tie them to actual PIE speakers 5-6 thousand years ago: simply wrong.

We don't have to negate the (widely accepted in linguistics) idea of a Proto-Indo-European homeland because of its unsavory associations. It just happens to be the case that the homeland and the people in it didn't much fit the white supremacist ideals at all.

An actual academic with an apparently wide audience is currently more or less denying the validity of historical linguistics on here, and it is all so very exhausting. No, of course he's not a linguist, and he clearly does not understand the methodology....

Roy Basically all sorts of people proposed all sorts of homeland solutions for all sorts of reasons. That some white supremacists do so is pretty much irrelevant to the question of the existence of a Proto-Indo-European homeland in time and space.

If anything, paleogenomics has destroyed Nazi-favored interpretations of Proto-Indo-European stemming from a racially unmixed population originating in Northern Germany/Scandinavia. Let's not replace the major achievements of this new field with fact-free linguistic denialism.

"Indo-European homeland" = "region where a community who spoke a language lived; this community migrated away from that region, bringing their languages to other regions with them as they intermingled with other populations". Is that a better explanation?

Stone Age Herbalist reminder our "hypothetical" language construction has proven to wield predicative power again, and again, and again. much more rigorous than any other aspect of humanities/social science.

“This Indo–European story has been mystery for 200 years, and now step by step, we are coming closer to the solution” Millennia-old genomes suggest Indo–European tongues spread from the Caucasus mountain region go.nature.com/4hL7WAt

Proto-Indo-European is a real thing and Proto-Indo-Europeans were people who spoke the language approximately 6000 years ago. The fact that we can reverse engineer how the language sounded 6000 years ago is a wonder of our science. This is possible because people realized that

"Hybrid" doesn't just mean "borrowed a lot of words from other languages"; otherwise the term would lose any analytical value (and Japanese with its tons of Sinitic - and now also English etc. - vocabulary would be a prime example of a "hybrid" language)...

Those of us who hear about PIE and have learned Latin will be wondering: How realistic can PIE be? Would it be possible to do a test by reconstructing Latin from modern Romance? Robert A. Hall tried it, and here's the result. Not perfect, but quite good actually.

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