Today nearly half of humanity speaks an Indo-European language. How did that happen?

Thousands of years ago, a group of hunter-gatherers roamed the steppes of southern Russia, fishing in its rivers and hunting across its vast grasslands. They lived in a world without settlements, ...

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 the ...

An international team of linguists and geneticists has achieved a significant breakthrough in our understanding of the origins of Indo-European, a family of languages spoken by nearly half of the ...

The common ancestor of Indo-European languages, which are now spoken by close to half the world’s population, was spoken in the eastern Mediterranean around 8000 years ago, according to an analysis of ...

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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, in ...

Ancient DNA reveals Indo-European speakers came from a region where multiple populations mixed and migrated over time. Geralt via Wikimedia Commons under CC0 New research analyzing ancient DNA may ...

Europe is a continent with a wide variety of languages, with hundreds of languages spoken in Europe's various countries. While many languages are represented in Europe, only a few stand out due to ...