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

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

For decades, the leading theory for the ubiquity of Indo-European languages was that early farmers, living in a region known ...

New genetic evidence traces the roots of English, Sanskrit, and hundreds of other languages to a group of hunter-gatherers in ...

Ancient-DNA analyses identify a Caucasus Lower Volga people as the ancient originators of Proto-Indo-European, the precursor ...

DNA study cracks centuries-old mystery over origin of languages spoken by half the world - Indo-European languages traced to ...

Learn more about groundbreaking genetic research that reveals a long-lost population and solves a centuries-old linguistic mystery.

The DNA study was split into two papers since Russian and Ukrainian researchers couldn't co-author, Nature reported.

The Indo-European Language The descendants of this forgotten tongue include English, Sanskrit and Greek. By comparing its "daughter languages" with one another, linguists have learned how it ...

Before the coming of the Roman empire, Celtic languages were spoken across Europe. Present day placenames indicate the extent of their influence: the town of Bala in Turkey and the city of London in ...

A pair of landmark studies has genetically identified the originators of the massive Indo-European family of 400-plus ...