revealing a potential source for the Indo–European language family, spoken by much of the world. “I think they are truly groundbreaking,” says Kristian Kristiansen, an archaeologist at the ...

In a beautiful illustration of the ultimate linguistic family tree, we're treated ... which is the Indo-European trunk, from which nearly all modern languages originate. From there it splits ...

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.

The languages must have “sprung from some common source,” he wrote. Later generations of linguists determined that Sanskrit and Latin belong to a huge family of so-called Indo-European languages.

Baltic languages are part of the Indo-European language family, spoken primarily in regions east and southeast of the Baltic Sea. Currently, Lithuanian and Latvian are the only spoken Baltic languages ...

New research suggests that the first Indo-European speakers lived in southern Russia 6,500 years ago, challenging long-standing debates about the language family’s origins Ella Jeffries Staff ...

These language families, including Germanic, Indo-Iranian and Celtic, evolved from a common tongue called the Proto-Indo-European, whose origin has been a mystery. In the new study, researchers at ...

The languages still uttered around Europe ... t illuminate the link between all the branches in the Indo-European family tree. By looking at the genetics of Bronze Age populations, the team ...