Harvard researchers traced the origins of the vast Indo-European language family to the Caucasus-Lower ... noting that the word “Aryan” comes from an Indo-European word.

A new study claims to have identified the first speakers of Indo-European language, which gave rise ... that Sanskrit and Latin belong to a huge family of so-called Indo-European languages.

Geralt via Wikimedia Commons under CC0 New research analyzing ancient DNA may have finally solved a long-standing linguistic mystery: Where did the Indo-European language family originate?

in or near the northern arc of the Fertile Crescent — as the earliest source of the Indo-European family. Our language family tree topology, and our lineage split dates, point to other early branches ...

Though the Saurashtra language is a member of the Indo-Aryan family, “as it has been in close contact with the Dravidian languages, it developed a grammar that is almost Dravidian”.

For centuries, historians and linguists have been searching for the cradle of the Indo-Europeans, an ancient people who shaped history and created the world’s largest language family ...

James Clackson at the University of Cambridge says this study is unlikely to be the final word on the origin of the Indo-European language family, but says it is a step in the right direction.

Indo-European, and Sino-Tibetan. The Dravidian language family, consisting of about 80 language varieties (both languages and dialects) is today spoken by about 220 million people, mostly in southern ...