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

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

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

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

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

evolved from a common tongue called the Proto-Indo-European, whose origin has been a mystery. In the new study, researchers at Vienna University analysed DNA samples of 435 people from ...

Hittite, as a language, has a distinct linguistic history, as it exhibits archaic aspects of Proto-Indo-European that are not present in any other successor. But even though they clearly speak a form ...

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

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