The languages must have “sprung from some common source,” he wrote. Later generations of linguists determined that Sanskrit and Latin belong to a huge family of so-called Indo-European languages.

New research suggests that the first Indo-European speakers lived in southern Russia 6,500 years ago, challenging ...

For eighteenth-century philologists like William Jones, the Orientalist scholar credited with conceptualising the ‘Indo-Aryan language tree’ and publicising historical linguistics in India, a language ...

Where lies the origin of the Indo-European language family? Ron Pinhasi and his team in the Department of Evolutionary ...

For decades, the leading theory for the ubiquity of Indo–European languages was that early farmers, living in a region known ...

Ancient DNA analysis provides new insights into our linguistic roots. Where did the Indo-European language family originate?

Ancient-DNA analyses identify a Caucasus Lower Volga people as the ancient originators of Proto-Indo-European, the precursor ...

A new study reveals fresh clues about Indo-European language origins, tracing an ancestral group's key role in their spread.