Proto Indo-European is thought to be one of the precursor to languages as diverse as English and Hindi. Google Translate Languages are constantly evolving, spawning offshoots and mashups and ...

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, ...

Ancient Europeans had a long tradition of oral storytelling before they had a written language, it turns out. Researchers from New University of Lisbon and Durham University have published new ...

The origin of the Indo-European language family has been an enigma that has intrigued linguists, historians, and archaeologists for centuries. Despite multiple studies conducted since the 19th century ...

Proto-Indo-European was last spoken between approximately 4,500 and 2,500 BC by our ancestors from all over Europe and Asia. It is thought to have originated on the steppes to the north of the Caspian ...

Nineteenth-century German and British linguists, building on some 18th-century hunches, uncovered the connections between members of a large (and rather dysfunctional) family of languages that ...

From English and Russian to Bengali and Punjabi, billions of us around the world speak Indo-European languages. And in the same way that we all came from a common ancestor, all of these languages ...

On new research by the scholar David Reich. Among the great intellectual developments of the nineteenth century was the advent of the comparative method in the nascent field of linguistics. Among the ...

Linguists and archaeologists have argued for decades about where, and when, the first Indo-European languages were spoken, and what kind of lives those first speakers led. A controversial new analytic ...