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

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 ...

Where lies the origin of the Indo-European language family? Ron Pinhasi and his team in the Department of Evolutionary ...

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

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.

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 Ella Jeffries Staff ...

revealing a potential source for the Indo–European language family, spoken by much of the world. “I think they are truly groundbreaking,” says Kristian Kristiansen, an archaeologist at the ...

These language families, including Germanic, Indo-Iranian and Celtic, evolved from a common tongue called the Proto-Indo-European, whose origin has been a mystery. In the new study, researchers at ...