An offshoot of the Yamnaya culture—the origin of the Indo-European language family which includes Latin, Greek, English, German, and Russian—the Aryans progenerated the Indo-Iranian subfamily ...

And her later chapters, devoted to specific descendants of PIE, make for uneven reading: Some, like her chapter on Indo-Iranian languages, are rich in detail; others, like her section on Albanian ...

The Germanic branch developed into languages including German, Dutch, and English. And the Indo-Iranian branch resulted in languages like Hindi, Bengali, Persian, and Kurdish.

3. Hindi Number of Total Speakers: 609.5 million Hindi is the third most-spoken language in the world in 2024. It belongs to the Indo-Iranian language family. It is India’s preferred official ...

German, Greek, Bulgarian and the Indo-Iranian language Domari are among a handful of Indo-European languages sometimes regarded as having no dominant word order (NDO).

Shina is part of the Dardic family of Indo-Iranian languages and is spoken widely in Gilgit-Baltistan and Kohistan areas of Pakistan.

New research suggests that the first Indo-European speakers lived in southern Russia 6,500 years ago, challenging long-standing debates about the language family’s origins ...

The common ancestor of Indo-European languages, which are now spoken by close to half the world’s population, was spoken in the eastern Mediterranean around 8000 years ago, according to an ...

This ancestry is linked to the formation of early Indo-Iranian languages, which later evolved into Sanskrit and other Indic languages.

Before then, the Indo-Iranian languages were already on a separate trek eastward, but the analysis does not determine if that was before or after the shift into the Steppe.