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

Language acquisition for these target groups remains important, despite the increasing use of artificial intelligence and machine translation programs. Multilingualism not only helps us in Europe ...

From 600 BC to 43 AD, early languages of Europe influenced the families of Celtic languages spoken across the continent. Two main groups of languages developed in the British Isles: Goidelic in ...

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

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

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

From these peoples came the Serednii Stih—nomads who spread during the Early Bronze Age and would eventually give rise to the Yamna. “[Yamna] ancestry suggests that they emerged […] as a descendant ...

Thousands of years ago, a group of hunter-gatherers roamed the steppes of southern Russia, fishing in its rivers and hunting ...

The new study is published in Nature. 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 ...