A pair of landmark studies, published Wednesday in the journal Nature, has finally identified the originators of the Indo-European family of 400-plus languages, spoken today by more than 40% of ...

How a Scientific Revolution is Rewriting Their Story is its starting point, specifically, determining where it was. He hopes ...

The Hunt for the First Indo-European Speakers For decades, linguists and archaeologists have debated the origins of Indo-European languages.

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.

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.

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

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.

Laura Spinney’s “Proto: How One Ancient Language Went Global” explores the roots of language and how it spread and changed across time and place.

BOOK EXCERPT Why does roughly half the world’s population speak Indo-European languages? A new book seeks answers An excerpt from ‘Religions of Early India: A Cultural History’, by Richard H ...

The language that changed the world Michael Rosen hears the fascinating story of the origin of all Indo-European languages from author Laura Spinney.

The beautiful 62-mile road that saved the world's oldest Indo-European language This road dates back to the early 13th century and has played a key role in saving one of the world's oldest languages.

OUP’s connection to Dravidian languages dates back to the 1960s when Thomas Burrow and Murray B Emeneau published the Dravidian Etymological Dictionary, exploring links between Indo-European and ...