The chart shows how some sounds from proto-Indo-European shifted in Germanic languages, such as English, while remaining the same in non-Germanic languages, such as French.

More information: Fulya Eylem Yediay et al, Ancient genomics support deep divergence between Eastern and Western Mediterranean Indo-European languages, bioRxiv (2024). DOI: 10.1101/2024.12.02 ...

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.

These shortcomings and assumptions have distorted age estimates for Indo-European language family subgroups such as Germanic, Slavic or Romance. PUBLICIDAD The new study addresses these issues, ...

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 ...

Proto-Indo-European is the ancestral tongue of 400 languages and dialects, including English, German, Italian, Greek, and Hindi. It appeared in historic records dating back 3,700 years, but ...

Laura Spinney’s “Proto: How One Ancient Language Went Global” explores the roots of language and how it spread and changed across time and place.

Humans The hunt for the birthplace of Indo-European languages. It’s incredibly tricky to pin down the origin of the language that led to the words spoken everywhere between Spain and India ...