English speakers have always been used to tracing the etymologies of their words back to the classical languages of Europe, but the suggestion, in the late 18th century, that there were also clear and ...

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 ...

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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.

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

revealing a potential source for the Indo-European language family, spoken by much of the world. “I think they are truly groundbreaking,” says Kristian Kristiansen, an archaeologist at the ...

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.

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 ...