For example, Anatolian, a now-extinct group of languages, was once thought to be the earliest offshoot of PIE, the first instance in which a new language split off from the mother tongue.

Anatolian languages, including Hittite, are the oldest branch of the Indo-European tongues to split away, uniquely preserving ...

Our languages have more in common than you might think. Laura Spinney’s “Proto: How One Ancient Language Went Global” explores the roots of language, and how it spread and changed across ...

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.

The top 20 languages for “snow” included several other languages of Alaska, such as Ahtena, Dena’ina and Central Alaskan Yupik, as well as Japanese and Scots.

Previous studies had not found steppe ancestry among the Hittites because, the new paper argues, the Anatolian languages were descended from a language spoken by a group that had not been ...

Languages including Farsi are members of the globe-spanning Indo-European language family. Credit: Tina Manley/Alamy. Ancient-genomics researchers have pinpointed the homelands of a nomadic tribe ...

For example, Anatolian, a now-extinct group of languages, was once thought to be the earliest offshoot of Proto-Indo-European, the first instance in which a new language split off from the mother ...

Caucasus-Lower Volga People Identified as Cradle of 400 Modern Languages The DNA study was split into two papers since Russian and Ukrainian researchers couldn't co-author, Nature reported. Aerial ...

For example, Anatolian, a now-extinct group of languages, was once thought to be the earliest offshoot of PIE, the first instance in which a new language split off from the mother tongue.