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-genomics researchers have pinpointed the homelands of a nomadic tribe that transformed the culture and genetics of Europe and Asia, revealing a potential source for the Indo-European language ...

A key human characteristic is our ability to communicate through complex languages — about 7,000 of which are spoken around the world today. Understanding the origin and development of past and ...

Europe’s linguistic landscape is shifting once again, and at the heart of this evolution are the Germanic languages, one of the continent’s most influential language families. From the North ...

A new study claims to have identified the first speakers of Indo-European language, which gave rise to English, Sanskrit and hundreds of others. By Carl Zimmer In 1786, a British judge named William ...

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, ...