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Indo- European Language Family The Indo-European proto-language was spoken south of the Caucasian mountains in the Aras river valley extending to the Black and Caspian Seas and north of the Black sea in the area between the Danube and Volga Rivers by a collection of semi-nomadic clans and rural tribes which more or less were hunters and gatherers around 6000 – 4000 B.C.E. Scholars have determined the location based on an extensive reconstructed vocabulary of Proto Indo-European language, and the habitat it describes. Therefore Proto- Indo European is an artificial reconstructed language (PIE), which was constructed out of fossil words. The break up of the early Indo- European society started around 4000 B.C.E. because of migration accompan