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

New research suggests that the first Indo-European speakers lived in southern Russia 6,500 years ago, challenging ...

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 ...

A new study reveals fresh clues about Indo-European language origins, tracing an ancestral group's key role in their spread.

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 ...

Thousands of years ago, a group of hunter-gatherers roamed the steppes of southern Russia, fishing in its rivers and hunting ...

Lower Volga group therefore can be connected to all Indo-European-speaking populations and is the best candidate for the ...

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

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 ...

An curved arrow pointing right. The origin of Indo-European languages has long been a topic of debate among scholars and scientists. In 2012, a team of evolutionary biologists at the University of ...