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 ...

The languages in the Indo-European family are spoken by almost half of the world’s population. This group includes a huge number of languages, ranging from English and Spanish to Russian, Kurdish and ...

The Hunt for the First Indo-European Speakers For decades, linguists and archaeologists have debated the origins of Indo-European languages. Some argued that early farmers in Anatolia (modern-day ...

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 over two hundred years, the origin of the Indo-European languages has been disputed. Two main theories have recently dominated this debate: the 'Steppe' hypothesis, which proposes an origin in ...

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 ...

Revealing dead languages To understand what’s going on, it helps to look at how the study of Indo-European languages developed. During the 16th century, as travel and trade put Europeans in ...

The Bachelor of Arts in European Languages, Literature and Film Studies curriculum builds upon existing UW language minors and established humanities coursework in French, German, and Spanish. To ...

Manuscript Open access Published: 27 May 2009 Networking Phylogeny for Indo-European and Austronesian Languages Philippe Blanchard , Filippo Petroni, Maurizio Serva & Dimitri Volchenkov Nature ...

UCLA established an interdisciplinary European studies department to allow students to study European languages and culture in greater depth. The university merged several of its European language ...