The Indo-European language family is one of the most influential and widespread in human history. From the ancient civilizations of India and Greece to modern global languages like English 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 ...

More information: Paul Heggarty et al, Language trees with sampled ancestors support a hybrid model for the origin of Indo-European languages, Science (2023). DOI: 10.1126/science.abg0818 . www ...

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 ...

These analyses estimate the Indo-European family to be approximately 8100 years old, ... “Aside from a refined time estimate for the overall language tree, ...

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 ...

These analyses estimate the Indo-European family to be approximately 8,100 years old, ... "Aside from a refined time estimate for the overall language tree, ...