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

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 ...

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.

New genetic evidence traces the roots of English, Sanskrit, and hundreds of other languages to a group of hunter-gatherers in ...

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.

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

Through migration, both hunter-gatherer and early farming groups mixed and mingled, sharing their genomes and, more importantly for this study, their languages. Prior to this study, the only branch of ...

Your donation allows us to keep sending journalists to speak ... These language families, including Germanic, Indo-Iranian and Celtic, evolved from a common tongue called the Proto-Indo-European ...

Indo-European languages spoken by nearly half of the world today originated from an ancient population that lived in the North Caucasus mountains and the Lower Volga, according to a new DNA study.