Almost half of all people in the world today speak an Indo-European language, one whose origins go back thousands of years to a single mother tongue. Languages as different as English, Russian ...

The work is published in the journal Science. For over two hundred years, the origin of the Indo-European languages has been disputed. Two main theories have recently dominated this debate ...

How did the language you are reading come to exist? The Indo-European family of languages covers most of Europe, the Iranian ...

An extinct set of Indo-European languages was spoken there during the Bronze Age. Linguists have long believed they represent an early split from proto-Indo-European. During the 21st century ...

The common ancestor of Indo-European languages, which are now spoken by close to half the world’s population, was spoken in the eastern Mediterranean around 8000 years ago, according to an ...

These people, known as the Caucasus-Lower Volga (CLV) group, later gave rise to the Yamnaya, a nomadic herding culture that spread Indo-European languages across Eurasia. “It’s the first time ...

The new study is published in Nature. 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 ...

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.

But the comparative method is emphatically not just about Indo-European: it works for all languages—unsurprisingly, its results are most impressive when ample material is available over time and ...

That is the leading explanation today for how the majority of Europeans came to speak the languages they do ... dialect clusters share the label “Indo-European” because, by the time linguists ...

The U.S. Census estimates 85% of Georgians speak English, while 15% speak other languages at home. Here's a look at what the ...

But the comparative method is emphatically not just about Indo-European: it works for all languages—unsurprisingly, its results are most impressive when ample material is available over time and space ...