Harvard researchers traced the origins of the vast Indo-European language family to the Caucasus-Lower Volga region, identifying the ancestral population that gave rise to more than 400 languages, in ...

A pair of landmark studies, published Wednesday in the journal Nature, has finally identified the originators of the Indo-European family of 400-plus languages, spoken today by more than 40% of the ...

New research suggests that the first Indo-European speakers lived in southern Russia 6,500 years ago, challenging ...

Ancient-DNA analyses identify a Caucasus Lower Volga people as the ancient originators of Proto-Indo-European, the precursor ...

Thousands of years ago, a group of hunter-gatherers roamed the steppes of southern Russia, fishing in its rivers and hunting ...

A new study claims to have identified the first speakers of Indo-European language, which gave rise to English, Sanskrit and ...

Where lies the origin of the Indo-European language family? Ron Pinhasi and his team in the Department of Evolutionary ...

A new study reveals fresh clues about Indo-European language origins, tracing an ancestral group's key role in their spread.

For decades, the leading theory for the ubiquity of Indo–European languages was that early farmers, living in a region known ...

Anatolian languages, including Hittite, are the oldest branch of the Indo-European tongues to split away, uniquely preserving some of the linguistic archaisms lost in all other branches.

The origin of Indo-European languages has long been a ... led by Dr. Quentin Atkinson released a study that found all modern IE languages could be traced back to a single root: Anatolian ...

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