Anatolian languages, including Hittite, are the oldest branch of the Indo-European tongues to split away, uniquely preserving some of the linguistic archaisms lost in all other branches.

Anatolian languages, including Hittite, are the oldest branch of the Indo-European tongues to split away, uniquely preserving some of the linguistic archaisms lost in all other branches.

The findings present a middle ground between two predominant theories about the origin of Indo-European languages. For decades, scholars debated between the Steppe Theory, which posits that the ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...