“The Hittites were uniquely interested in recording rituals in foreign languages,” Daniel Schwemer, head of the Chair of ...

Indo-European itself cannot have fragmented into those daughter languages, historical linguists argue, before the invention of chariots and wagons, the earliest known examples of which date to ...

The majority view in historical linguistics is that the homeland of the Indo- European language family was located in the Pontic steppes (present day Ukraine) around 6000 years ago. The evidence ...

Among the Indo-European languages are English, German, Spanish, Italian, Russian, Hindi-Urdu and Persian. At the head of the family tree is the postulated language we call Proto-Indo-European, or ...

A study of genomes from ancient Siberian people shows genetic linkages with people living in Estonia, Finland and Hungary today.

The Indo-European languages belong to one of the widest spread language families of the world. But controversy remains about the time and place of the origins of the family. A large international team ...

We know that the Proto-Indo-European language appeared somewhere between 5,500 and 9,000 years ago, and the study suggests it only spread to Europe about 6,500 years ago.

The languages cluster around certain common features, but the words are all strikingly similar, especially when you consider the words for two in languages outside the Indo-European family: iki ...

They traced the origins of Indo-European languages to 7,800–9,800 years ago, supporting the Anatolian hypothesis. Critics were skeptical.

That's because both languages belong to a large family known as the Indo-European languages. A group that contains over 400 languages and dialects: Polish, Persian, English, French, German ...

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 ...

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 ...