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 ...

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

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

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

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?

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.

This revelation is part of what is said to be a potentially path-breaking initiative to explore Tamil’s connections to Indo-European languages, providing a new perspective on the evolution of words.

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