Let’s Talk About PIE (Proto-Indo-European) - Reconstructing Old Languages

Ever wondered what techniques use to reconstruct Proto-Indo-European language? Go to for 20% off Brilliant’s Annual Premium subscription, for full access to all of their problem and puzzles archives. Reconstructing dead and ancient languages is not an easy task when there are no scriptures or recordings available in the present day. In today’s video, I show how some comparative methods across different Indo-European languages reveal the relationships between them, and how they can be used to deduced what the cognate in the Proto-Language PIE (Proto-Indo-European) may have looked like. Thank you to everyone who helped me illustrate Grimm’s law and other sound shifts amongst Indo-European languages, and to Dr. Andrew Byrd himself who translated and voiced a sentence in PIE just for this video! Behind the scenes available to patrons on patreon: ● PATREON: ● KO-FI: