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They probably didn't. PIE is a reconstructed language, not a real one, and that's all we can reconstruct. (Sorry, if I'm taking an ironic post too seriously 😅)
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Suspect that the monks in charge of alphabets kept inventing new letters and word spellings, maybe just for lulz. As a result modern languages carry massive layers of phonetic sediment.
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It’s a well established fact among scholars that the driver behind the Indo-European expansion was people choosing to move rather than face the embarrassment of not understanding their neighbors.