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 ...

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

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Two research papers published in Nature by scientists from Russia and Ukraine provide new evidence supporting the theory that ...

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

Two new papers, published in the journal Nature, by scientists from Russia and Ukraine, further solidify this claim about the origin of the Indo-European family of languages that include Sanskrit, ...

Ancient Greek is among the oldest languages in the world, but how did the pronunciation in Greek change throughout the ages? Credit: Maurice Flesier / CC BY-SA 4.0 / Wikimedia Commons Greek is one of ...

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

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

Lower Volga group therefore can be connected to all Indo-European-speaking populations and is the best candidate for the ...

Indo-European languages spoken by nearly half of the world today originated from an ancient population that lived in the ...

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