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 ...

By analyzing genetic material from over 400 individuals across Eurasia, researchers have traced the origins of Indo-European languages to a group known as the Caucasus-Lower Volga (CLV) people ...

Linguists and archaeologists have long argued about which group of ancient people spoke the original Indo-European language. A new study in the journal Nature throws a new theory into the fray.

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.

These people, known as the Caucasus-Lower Volga (CLV) group, later gave rise to the Yamnaya, a nomadic herding culture that spread Indo-European languages across Eurasia.

And no one seems concerned that the Russian word kurgan, which has played an outsize role in Indo-European studies for generations, came to Slavic from a Turkic—i.e., non-Indo-European—language. Even ...

The North Pontic Region is also thought to be where Indo-European languages—a group of languages endemic to most of Europe and reach as far east as northwest Iran—came from.

The Indo-Europeans knew agriculture, as indicated by shared terms for plow and other agricultural implements. However, the mainstay of the material economy was stockbreeding. The Indo-Europeans ...

How Migration and Soft Power Made Indo-European Languages Dominant. ... About 5,000 years ago, a group of herders living in the grasslands north of the Black Sea headed west, ...