The language family began to diverge from around 8,100 years ago, out of a homeland immediately south of the Caucasus. One migration reached the Pontic-Caspian and Forest Steppe around 7,000 years ago ...

Evolution of English A 'family tree' of languages adds weight to the theory that a large group of languages, including English, originated from the region that is now Turkey. The controversial ...

The languages in the Indo-European family are spoken by almost half of the world’s population. This group includes a huge number of languages, ranging from English and Spanish to Russian, Kurdish and ...

For over two hundred years, the origin of the Indo-European languages has been disputed. Two main theories have recently dominated this debate: the ‘Steppe’ hypothesis, which proposes an origin in the ...

Paul Heggarty and colleagues present a new framework for the chronology and divergence of languages in the Indo-European family, which places the family’s origin at around 8300 BP – older than ...

The roots of the Indo-European languages date back to about 8,100 years ago in a region south of the Caucasus, according to a study released on Thursday that has also suggested that Vedic Sanskrit was ...

Almost half of all people in the world today speak an Indo-European language, one whose origins go back thousands of years to a single mother tongue. Languages as different as English, Russian, ...

Evolutionary biologists have waded into the stormy debate over when and where Indo-European languages originated. Dr Russell Gray and PhD student Quentin Atkinson from the University of Auckland in ...

Indo-European languages range throughout Europe and South Asia and even into Iran, yet the roots of this widespread family of tongues have long been controversial. A new study adds support to the ...

The first words of Indo-European languages may have been spoken around 8,000 years ago in what is now Turkey. Researchers from New Zealand traced the family tree of 87 tongues including English, ...

For over two hundred years, the origin of the Indo-European languages has been disputed. Two main theories have recently dominated this debate: the ‘Steppe’ hypothesis, which proposes an origin in the ...