Ancient-genomics researchers have pinpointed the homelands of a nomadic tribe that transformed the culture and genetics of Europe and Asia, revealing a potential source for the Indo-European ...

A new linguistic study has revealed that the European Huns, including their famous leader Attila, were not Turkic in origin as once believed, but instead spoke an ancient Siberian language. This ...

How one language family took over the world: ... The papers concluded that hunter-gatherers, farmers and nomads migrated east towards Asia and west towards Europe around 5,000 years ago, ...

The vast majority of people, if asked what language is spoken in China, would say: That’s a no-brainer: Chinese, of course! Some might know enough to differentiate between Mandarin Chinese and ...

The team suggests that the Indo-Iranic branch of the language broke off earlier, around 7000 years ago. This new “hybrid” idea therefore takes aspects of both the steppe and farming hypotheses.

Although the earliest written evidence of these languages dates back only around 3,000 years, Hieber says that both belong to the Afroasiatic language family, whose roots trace back to 18,000 to ...