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How One Ancient Language Went Global” explores the roots of language and how it spread and changed across time and place.

This theory states that Proto-Indo-European language emerged somewhere north of the Black Sea around 5,000 or 6,000 years ago. It is linked to Kurgan culture , known for its distinctive burial ...

The origins and spread of Indo-European languages, which are spoken by nearly half of the world’s population, have long been debated. Much of the dispute centers on where the language group ...

in or near the northern arc of the Fertile Crescent — as the earliest source of the Indo-European family. Our language family tree topology, and our lineage split dates, point to other early branches ...

So the Indo-European word “dwo” became “two ... In essence, the computer program works by drawing a language tree and estimating the probability that it is correct given all the data ...

So the Indo-European word “dwo” became “two ... In essence, the computer program works by drawing a language tree and estimating the probability that it is correct given all the data ...

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 so-called steppe hypothesis, formulated during the 19th century and formalized in the 1950s, postulated that speakers of the ancestor language of the Indo-European group lived on the Eurasian ...