Cross Linguistic Influence on Spanish Phonology

The death of Muhammad in 632 AD initiated the infamous Islamic Conquest, in which missionaries traveled from Arabia across North Africa and into the Iberian Peninsula, educating locals on both Continue Reading →

The High German Sound Shift

After Grimm’s Law, or the First Germanic Sound Shift, the Germanic language family underwent a sound change that affected a range of consonant sounds. This change is known as the Continue Reading →

The Proto-Indo-European Creation Myth

Everyone has heard the myth of the founding of Rome: twins Remus and Romulus are found and raised by wolves. Romulus kills Remus (perhaps as a sacrifice). Rome is created. Continue Reading →

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Fables

Lured by honey, the sky god makes a new acquaintance in our latest fable *Médʰu n̥dʰgʷʰitóm.

Language

Articles about Proto-Indo-European and the Indo-European daughter languages.

Culture

Articles about Indo-European culture.

D^hu̯órom B^hl̥gés

Welcome to the *B^hlog, a website that hopes to provide an accessible but informed forum for all matters Indo-European. The idea for this website arose in the Fall of 2013, when two fables that I recorded for Archaeology Magazine went viral and were heard by hundreds of thousands of people who had never even heard of Proto-Indo-European or the Indo-European language family.

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The goal of the website is to keep that interest going. If you’re a layperson, feel free to send an e-mail to the *B^hlog with questions you might have about Indo-European. If you’re a specialist and want to contribute to the site, just let me know and I will set you up an account.

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