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 ...

By analyzing genetic material from over 400 individuals across Eurasia, researchers have traced the origins of Indo-European languages to a group known as the Caucasus-Lower Volga (CLV) people ...

How a Scientific Revolution is Rewriting Their Story is its starting point, specifically, determining where it was. He hopes ...

In the case of Proto-Indo-European, lively debate over the date and place from which the people initially dispersed who became Hindi speakers in Delhi, Irish speakers in Dublin, and English ...

Linguists and archaeologists have long argued about which group of ancient people spoke the original Indo-European language. A new study in the journal Nature throws a new theory into the fray.

Indo-European languages spoken by nearly half of the world today originated from an ancient population that lived in the North Caucasus mountains and the Lower Volga, according to a new DNA study ...

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 ...

This proposal challenges the traditional view that considers the Astures as a Celtic or at least Indo-European people. Ballester based his argument on a convergence of linguistic, cultural, and ...

For centuries, historians and linguists have been searching for the cradle of the Indo-Europeans, an ancient people who shaped history and created the world’s largest language family, now spoken ...

And no one seems concerned that the Russian word kurgan, which has played an outsize role in Indo-European studies for generations, came to Slavic from a Turkic—i.e., non-Indo-European—language. Even ...