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 ...

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 ...

An curved arrow pointing right. The origin of Indo-European languages has long been a topic of debate among scholars and scientists. In 2012, a team of evolutionary biologists at the University of ...

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 ...