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 ...

The languages in the Indo-European family are spoken by almost half of the world's population. This group includes a huge number of languages, ranging from English and Spanish to Russian ...

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Linguistics, working on sound shifts, has given us about 1,600 words in Proto-Indo-European, which no one has spoken in over 5,000 years. Archeology has identified cultures and their movements across ...

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 ...

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.

Geralt via Wikimedia Commons under CC0 New research analyzing ancient DNA may have finally solved a long-standing linguistic mystery: Where did the Indo-European language family originate?

The languages must have “sprung from some common source,” he wrote. Later generations of linguists determined that Sanskrit and Latin belong to a huge family of so-called Indo-European languages.

History shows that linguistics evolve in unpredictable ways — and that the supremacy of English is not guaranteed.

But the comparative method is emphatically not just about Indo-European: it works for all languages—unsurprisingly ... the first to break off from the family jibes with what most Indo ...

An offshoot of the Yamnaya culture—the origin of the Indo-European language family which includes Latin, Greek, English, German, and Russian—the Aryans progenerated the Indo-Iranian subfamily ...