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Proto-Indo European
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Noun1.Proto-Indo European - a prehistoric unrecorded language that was the ancestor of all Indo-European languages
Indo-European language, Indo-Hittite, Indo-European - the family of languages that by 1000 BC were spoken throughout Europe and in parts of southwestern and southern Asia


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Modern linguistics also points out the role of Proto-Indo-European language which has evolved into Modern English, Hindi, Russian and other contemporary languages.
As we recognize that modern European languages had their roots in a proto-Indo-European language whose nature we can approximate from their evolution, so we can reconstruct a proto-Indo-European performance tradition in which medieval religious drama would be the high end of a spectrum, coexisting with popular performance, as classical Latin coexisted with the developing romance languages.
 
 
 
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