After all, Nazis and neo-Nazis, obsessed with racial purity, have suggested that Proto-Indo-European was the tongue of the Aryan “master race.” Some cranks have gone so far as to locate the ...

Nineteenth-century linguists called the original speakers of Indo-European Aryans, and some writers later pushed the notion that ancient Aryans were a superior race. The Nazis embraced the Aryan ...

“White supremacists have grabbed onto it and continue to run old Nazi propaganda lines about Indo-European languages,” he said, noting that the word “Aryan” comes from an Indo-European word.

and helps dismantle 19th- and 20th-century racial theories that falsely claimed Indo-European speakers belonged to a pure “Aryan” race, per Science. The Nazis co-opted these ideas to justify ...

For centuries, historians and linguists have been searching for the cradle of the Indo-Europeans ... In the 20th century, the term Aryan became associated with white supremacy, after theorists ...

A pair of landmark studies, published Wednesday in the journal Nature, has finally identified the originators of the Indo-European family of 400-plus languages, spoken today by more than 40% of ...

evolved from a common tongue called the Proto-Indo-European, whose origin has been a mystery. In the new study, researchers at Vienna University analysed DNA samples of 435 people from ...

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.

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 ...