The Indo-European family is the largest, especially when counting second-language speakers. It spans 12 branches with historic roots stretching from northwestern China to Western Europe. According to ...

The origin of the Indo-European language family has been the “Holy ... Jones speculated that the birthplace of Proto-Indo-European was probably in what is now Iran, with speakers migrating ...

Laura Spinney’s Proto: How One Ancient Language Went Global attempts to chart the story of the Indo-European languages and the people who spoke them. These languages, which include English, Latin, ...

A GLOWING CUBE sits in the centre of Makuhari Messe, one of Japan’s largest convention centres. As the crowd roars with excitement, Hoshimachi Suisei (pictured) emerges from the box wearing a ...

The answer, in fact, sits above and across those words: Proto-Indo-European. This is the great original language from which English, among many other tongues, both alive and dead, derives.