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 ...

Each of the 103 languages, with its cognate sets, temporal and geographical range, constituted one leaf of the Indo-European family tree. The tricky part was filling in the branches.

The first author of the study, Paul Heggarty, observed that “Recent ancient DNA data suggest that the Anatolian branch of Indo-European did not emerge from the Steppe, but from further south, in or ...

New research suggests that the original proto-language sounded somewhat like the speech of Yoda, the tiny green Jedi from "Star Wars." Fox News Media Fox Business ...

Understanding such changes enables language families such as the Indo-European family to be split into branches, such as the Romance, Germanic and Slavic languages, on the basis of shared changes.

A new study claims to have identified the first speakers of Indo-European language, which gave rise to English, Sanskrit and hundreds of others. By Carl Zimmer In 1786, a British judge named ...