Ancient 6,500-Year-Old DNA Reveals the Origin of Indo-European Languages Spoken by Half the World. Story by Tibi Puiu • 2mo. T housands of years ago, ...

A 2015 paper indicated that Indo-European languages — the world's biggest language group that includes Hindi-Urdu, Farsi, Russian, English, French, Gaelic and more than 400 others — arrived in ...

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.

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 ...

Where did Europe's distinct Uralic family of languages—which includes Hungarian, Finnish, and Estonian—come from? New ...

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 ...

Millennia-old genomes suggest Indo-European tongues originated from the Caucasus mountain region. ... How one language family took over the world: ancient DNA traces its spread.

The author of hundreds of articles in leading journals, as well as of an outstanding trade book titled Who We Are and How We Got Here: Ancient DNA and the New Science of the Human Past (2018), Reich ...

The study confirms that Proto-Indo-European was similar to Classical Greek and Sanskrit, supporting the theory of the 19 th century scholars. However, the study also provides new insights into the ...

For centuries, historians and linguists have been searching for the cradle of the Indo-Europeans, an ancient people who shaped history and created the world’s largest language family, now spoken ...

WASHINGTON — For decades, researchers have debated how Indo-European languages came to be spoken from the British Isles to South Asia. Now, the largest-ever study of ancient human DNA suggests ...