Laura Spinney @laurainparis.bsky.social · 23/01/2026Anyone in Hyderabad tomorrow, we’d love you to come join the discussion. 150
Laura Spinney @laurainparis.bsky.social · 21/11/2025It's Black Friday and books are going cheap... 🤗 shorturl.at/uEJdj 1142
Laura Spinney @laurainparis.bsky.social · 15/09/2025My discovery of the weekend, thanks to film-maker Hana Vojáčková, the extraordinary Spartakiads - vast, synchronised sports events popular in eastern Europe in the Communist years. Her short film on the subject: vimeo.com/614731350 041
Laura Spinney @laurainparis.bsky.social · 11/08/2025Hallo liebe Leser von DER URKNALL UNSERER SPRACHE! Die deutschsprachige Ausgabe von PROTO ist für das Wissensbuch des Jahres in der Kategorie "Überblick" nominiert. Noch bis zum 14. August könnt ihr hier abstimmen: www.konradin-service.de/umfrage/inde... 041
Laura Spinney @laurainparis.bsky.social · 24/07/2025Love this. How to say 92 in different European languages. Note the outliers France and especially Denmark. With thanks to brilliantmaps.com and reddit. #linguistics 4258
Laura Spinney @laurainparis.bsky.social · 15/06/2025The 5 main tributaries of the great Indus River, which are at the origin of the name Punjab / Panjab - from Persian panj (five) and āb (water) - because named by the Mughals - and going further back to Proto-Indo-European *pénkʷe and *h₂ep- #linguistics #protoindoeuropean 1251
Laura Spinney @laurainparis.bsky.social · 29/05/2025When Danish fishermen (two pictured) stepped ashore in Northumbrian ports in the 19th Century, I'm told, they and the locals could understand each other. Can any local historians confirm? #danelaw #linguistics #protoindoeuropean 130
Laura Spinney @laurainparis.bsky.social · 14/05/2025Galatasary means "palace of the Celts". The Galatians Paul wrote to were Celts too. Yes, there were once Celts in Turkey. Read PROTO for more... #linguistics #archaeology #genetics #protoindoeuropean 040
Laura Spinney @laurainparis.bsky.social · 02/05/2025Did he speak #protoindoeuropean? Yamnaya man who lived about 2,700BCE in what is now the Russian steppe, courtesy of archaeologist Natalia Shishlina. I watched her team excavate him in the summer of 2023. Read more in PROTO... #adna #linguistics #archaeology 080
Laura Spinney @laurainparis.bsky.social · 24/04/2025PUBLICATION DAY - finally! Why does nearly half of humanity speak languages descended from a single common ancestor? That question fascinated me enough to write a book about it, hopefully it will fascinate you enough to read it. 1420748
Laura Spinney @laurainparis.bsky.social · 17/04/2025The #virginqueen subtly changed the #englishlanguage to mark herself out as a female monarch in a masculine power space. She helped do away with the double negative and replace ‘ye’ with ‘you’. Courtesy of Mel Evans @universityofleeds.bsky.social shorturl.at/tNVOc #linguistics #tudorhistory #proto 183
Laura Spinney @laurainparis.bsky.social · 11/04/2025A dragon stone or vishap in Yerevan. Such stones litter the Armenian highlands. Some think they represent animal sacrifices, pagan rituals that came from the steppe with the Armenian language. @wmcollinsbooks.bsky.social @bloomsburybooksus.bsky.social #linguistics #archaeology shorturl.at/lYdKY 141
Laura Spinney @laurainparis.bsky.social · 27/03/2025Being multilingual didn't do Arsenal FC manager Mikel Arteta any harm. It could give your economy wings too. #proto shorturl.at/KvKoC 120
Laura Spinney @laurainparis.bsky.social · 21/03/2025Interviewing a #Kalmyk shepherd July 2023, to understand how their #BronzeAge #Indo-European -speaking predecessors might have used the landscape. With archaeologist Natalia Shishlina in the #steppe #archaeology #linguistics #genetics @bloomsburybooksus.bsky.social @wmcollinsbooks.bsky.social 1103
Laura Spinney @laurainparis.bsky.social · 07/03/2025When the first steppe nomads came to Europe 5,000 years ago, they brought their languages, and sheep. Lots and lots of sheep. Sheep milk and cheese powered the spread of the #indoeuropeanlanguages . #yamnaya #language #ancientdna 142
Laura Spinney @laurainparis.bsky.social · 27/02/2025#sarmatian necklace, more than 3,000 years old. Isn't it beautiful? 130
Laura Spinney @laurainparis.bsky.social · 22/02/202525% off if you preorder PROTO, the story of the #IndoEuropean languages - by midnight on Monday. Then it turns into a pumpkin. #language #archaeology #aDNA @waterstones.bsky.social @wmcollinsbooks.bsky.social 020
Laura Spinney @laurainparis.bsky.social · 14/02/2025How to reconstruct a 5,000-year-old insult: compare its modern descendants #linguistics geni.us/proto @wmcollinsbooks.bsky.social @bloomsburybooksus.bsky.social 020
Laura Spinney @laurainparis.bsky.social · 06/02/2025A clay tablet was unearthed at the ancient Hittite capital, Hattusha in Türkiye, in the summer of 2023, that bears an as-yet unknown Indo-European language. Linguists are busy deciphering it. Read more in PROTO: HOW ONE ANCIENT LANGUAGE WENT GLOBAL 031
Laura Spinney @laurainparis.bsky.social · 01/02/2025The southern Russian steppe in late June2023. Exceptionally green, for the season, but it was in an environment like this that the 5,000-year-old #Proto-Indo-European language was probably spoken. 011
