Most linguists think that those speakers were nomadic herders who lived on the steppes of Ukraine and western ... languages, and that can be traced back to the same Proto-Indo-European root.

Indo-European ... and Italo-Germanic. More information: Fulya Eylem Yediay et al, Ancient genomics support deep divergence between Eastern and Western Mediterranean Indo-European languages ...

Indo-European languages ... groups such as Germanic, Romance, Slavic, Indo-Iranian, and Celtic, are spoken by nearly half the world's population today. Originating from the Proto-Indo-European ...

Many decades ago, linguists began trying to reconstruct the proto-Indo-European language by looking at words shared by many different languages ... Empire was battling Germanic tribes almost ...

Ever since the discovery, over two centuries ago, that these languages belong to the same family, philologists have worked to reconstruct the first Indo-European language (known as Proto-Indo-European ...

The study used ancient DNA analysis to provide insights into the origins of Indo-European languages ... around 3300 BCE and spread from Hungary to western China. Iosif Lazaridis, a Harvard ...

That is the leading explanation today for how the majority of Europeans came to speak the languages ... Both eastern and western dialect clusters share the label “Indo-European” because ...

It is possible to travel from the UK, where I live, east through Europe into Ukraine and western Russia (maybe don’t do this bit), cross the Caspian Sea, then carry on east all the way to India ...