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Figure 6.11
Indo-European Language Family: Proposed
Westward Dispersal.
Approximate timings
and routes for the westward dispersal of the
Indo-European languages.
Figure 6.12
Indo-European Language Family: Proposed Hearth and Dispersal Hypothesis.
This
theory proposes that the Indo-European language family began in the Caucasus Mountain region
and dispersed eastward before diffusing westward.
Adapted with permission from
: Gamkrelidze and
Ivanov, 1990, p. 112.