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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.