It is possible to travel from the UK, where I live, east through Europe into Ukraine and western Russia (maybe don’t do this bit), cross the Caspian Sea, then carry on east all the way to India ...

Most linguists think that those speakers were nomadic herders who lived on the steppes of Ukraine and western ... languages, and that can be traced back to the same Proto-Indo-European root.

Indo-European languages ... groups such as Germanic, Romance, Slavic, Indo-Iranian, and Celtic, are spoken by nearly half the world's population today. Originating from the Proto-Indo-European ...

That is the leading explanation today for how the majority of Europeans came to speak the languages ... Both eastern and western dialect clusters share the label “Indo-European” because ...

Many decades ago, linguists began trying to reconstruct the proto-Indo-European language by looking at words shared by many different languages ... Empire was battling Germanic tribes almost ...

The study used ancient DNA analysis to provide insights into the origins of Indo-European languages ... around 3300 BCE and spread from Hungary to western China. Iosif Lazaridis, a Harvard ...

This theory states that Proto-Indo-European language emerged somewhere north of the Black Sea around 5,000 or 6,000 years ago. It is linked to Kurgan culture , known for its distinctive burial ...

Indo-European ... and Italo-Germanic. More information: Fulya Eylem Yediay et al, Ancient genomics support deep divergence ...