Ancient DNA analysis provides new insights into our linguistic roots. Where did the Indo-European language family originate?

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

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 ...

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

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

Where lies the origin of the Indo-European language family? Researchers contribute a new piece to this puzzle. They analyzed ancient DNA from 435 individuals from archaeological sites across Eurasia ...

showing how it has influenced many Indo-European languages. Much of these roots have been traced back to Old Tamil,” she explained. OUP’s connection to Dravidian languages dates back to the ...

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 ...

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.