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 ...

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

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

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

These language families, including Germanic, Indo-Iranian and Celtic, evolved from a common tongue called the Proto-Indo-European, whose origin has been a mystery. In the new study, researchers at ...

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 ...

Nearly half the world’s population speaks at least one of the roughly 400 Indo–European languages. These include nearly all European and Central Asian languages, as well as those from South ...

The languages still uttered around Europe ... t illuminate the link between all the branches in the Indo-European family tree. By looking at the genetics of Bronze Age populations, the team ...