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 ...

Renfrew reasoned that the dramatic spread of Indo-European languages must have required ... In essence, the computer program works by drawing a language tree and estimating the probability that ...

Our language family tree topology, and our lineage split dates ... The authors of the study therefore proposed a new hybrid hypothesis for the origin of the Indo-European languages, with an ultimate ...

The common ancestor of Indo-European languages ... could estimate how related the languages were to each other and try to piece together when one language split into two new languages.

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 ...

“We hypothesized some deeper population was the ultimate source of Indo-European languages.” But not all experts are convinced that genetic data alone can pinpoint the origins of a language.

Where lies the origin of the Indo-European language family ... vector for the spread of Indo-European languages. The only branch of Indo-European language (IE) that had not exhibited any steppe ...

Basque (or Euskara) is believed to be the oldest of the European indigenous languages. Spoken in the Pyrenees region of France and Spain, Basque is a language isolate, meaning it doesn’t ...

Albanian differs from any other language, even that of its Indo-European classification. It consists of some extinct languages, including Thracian, Illyrian and Dacian, while also featuring some ...

A pair of landmark studies, published Wednesday in the journal Nature, has finally identified the originators of the Indo-European family of 400-plus languages, spoken today by more than 40% of ...

More than 20 European languages face digital extinction because of a lack of technological support, a study by Europe’s leading language technology experts has found. Scientists from The University of ...