These language families, including Germanic, Indo-Iranian and Celtic, evolved from a common tongue called the ...

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

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

A pair of landmark studies, published Wednesday in the journal Nature, has finally identified the originators of the ...

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

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 ...

Ancient DNA analysis provides new insights into our linguistic roots. Where did the Indo-European language family originate?

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

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

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

An curved arrow pointing right. The origin of Indo-European languages has long been a topic of debate among scholars and scientists. In 2012, a team of evolutionary biologists at the University of ...

Indo-European languages (IE), which number over 400 and include major groups such as Germanic, Romance, Slavic, Indo-Iranian, and Celtic, are spoken by nearly half the world's population today.