LANGUAGE MAPS

Proto-Indo-European

"By comparing the recorded Indo-European languages, especially the most ancient ones, much of the parent language from which they are descended can be reconstructed. This reconstructed parent language is sometimes called simply Indo-European."

from:
The Encyclopedia Brittanica Online

When the project first began, and I was creating numerous diagrams of the potential connections between the participants and the host venue, I was reminded of this chart in the back pages of my dictionary. I imagined that the host venue could stand in as Proto-Indo-European. The source from which all of the languages of the performance would derive.

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