Genetic research traced the ancestral homeland of Uralic people, whose descendants live in Russia, Hungary, Finland and ...

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 ...

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 ...

A new study claims to have identified the first speakers of Indo-European language, which gave rise to English, Sanskrit and hundreds of others. By Carl Zimmer In 1786, a British judge named ...

Indo-European languages—including English, Russian, Greek, Bengali and more—are spoken by nearly half of the world’s population. For decades, ...

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.

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.

Both eastern and western dialect clusters share the label “Indo-European” because, by the time linguists noticed the family resemblance in the 18th century, they were spoken from Europe to the ...

Humans The hunt for the birthplace of Indo-European languages. It’s incredibly tricky to pin down the origin of the language that led to the words spoken everywhere between Spain and India ...