The reconstructed lexicon of Proto-Indo-European has only about 1,600 words, and at its dawn the language may have been spoken by as few as 100 people—people who didn’t need words for such ...

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 ...

Today, linguists are in broad agreement on the basics of Indo-European language groupings and how they are related to one another. They agree that the original language, which they call Proto-Indo ...

And no one seems concerned that the Russian word kurgan, which has played an outsize role in Indo-European studies for generations, came to Slavic from a Turkic—i.e., non-Indo-European—language.

Today, linguists are in broad agreement on the basics of Indo-European language groupings and how they are related to one another. They agree that the original language, which they call Proto-Indo ...

And no one seems concerned that the Russian word kurgan, which has played an outsize role in Indo-European studies for generations, came to Slavic from a Turkic—i.e., non-Indo-European—language. Even ...

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.

For example, the Proto-Indo-European language had a word for axle, two words for wheel, a word for harness-pole and a verb that meant “to transport by vehicle.” Archaeologists know that wheel and axle ...

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 ...

The beautiful 62-mile road that saved the world's oldest Indo-European language This road dates back to the early 13th century and has played a key role in saving one of the world's oldest languages.

The U.S. has deployed its bombers to five Indo-Pacific locations that are outside the continental U.S., a Newsweek map shows.

The reconstructed lexicon of Proto-Indo-European has only about 1,600 words, and at its dawn the language may have been spoken by as few as 100 people—people who didn’t need words for such ...