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, in ...

A pair of landmark studies, published Wednesday in the journal Nature, has finally identified the originators of the ...

Where lies the origin of the Indo-European language family? Ron Pinhasi and his team in the Department of Evolutionary ...

New research suggests that the first Indo-European speakers lived in southern Russia 6,500 years ago, challenging ...

A new study claims to have identified the first speakers of Indo-European language, which gave rise to English, Sanskrit and ...

For decades, the leading theory for the ubiquity of Indo–European languages was that early farmers, living in a region known ...

A new study reveals fresh clues about Indo-European language origins, tracing an ancestral group's key role in their spread.

The languages still uttered around Europe ... t illuminate the link between all the branches in the Indo-European family tree. By looking at the genetics of Bronze Age populations, the team ...

These language families, including Germanic, Indo-Iranian and Celtic, evolved from a common tongue called the Proto-Indo-European, whose origin has been a mystery. In the new study, researchers at ...

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.