Did you know that most of the different languages we speak today can actually be placed in only a couple of groups by their ...

Languages, like genes, provide vital clues about human history1,2. The origin of the Indo-European language family is “the most intensively studied, yet still most recalcitrant, problem of ...

The Indo-European language family is one of the most influential and widespread in human history. From the ancient civilizations of India and Greece to modern global languages like English and ...

Rapid radiation of the inner Indo-European languages: an advanced approach to Indo-European lexicostatistics. Linguistics , 2021; 59 (4): 949 DOI: 10.1515/ling-2020-0060 ...

New language tree model suggests hybrid origin for Indo-European languages Peer-Reviewed Publication. American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) ...

What's startlingly clear in this rendering is the extent to which India, whose population is bigger than all of Europe, is as linguistically diverse as Europe -- and likely more so, given the wide ...

Almost half of all people in the world today speak an Indo-European language, one whose origins go back thousands of years to a single mother tongue. Languages as different as English, Russian ...

The second conclusion is that the spread of Indo-European language is not consistent with a farming related migration around 8,000 years ago out of Anatolia south of the Black Sea.

For example, the Proto-Indo-European language had a word for axle, two words for wheel, a word for harness-pole and a verb that meant “to transport by vehicle.” Archaeologists know that wheel and axle ...

Today, linguists are in broad agreement on the basics of Indo-European language groupings and how they are related to one another. They agree that the original language, which they call Proto-Indo ...