British scholar Colin Renfrew has brought many new ideas about the source for a "superfamily" of language. Colin Renfrew was a British scholar that proposed that there were three cultural hearths from the "Agricultural Theory." The source for a "superfamily" of language was found through language diffusion, theories of languages, and Colin Renfrew's ideas off of the "Agricultural Theory." Language diffusion has played a significant role in with the two theories, Agricultural and Conquest. The …showed first 75 words of 654 total…

…showed last 75 words of 654 total…diffusion, theories of languages, and Colin Renfrew's ideas off of the "Agricultural Theory." Grimm's Law takes the similar constant sounds of different languages and proved that language has changed over time. The agricultural and conquest theories are opposing ones and have different ideas of the hearth of the mother tongue. As a result of Renfrew's proposed idea Russian scholars Vladislav Illich-Svitych and Aharon Dolgopolsky established the core of a pre-Proto-European language, which they named Nostratic.