New DNA research shows that half the human beings alive today are descended from the Yamnaya, who lived in Ukraine 5,000 ...

The descendants of this forgotten tongue include English, Sanskrit and Greek. By comparing its "daughter languages" with one another, linguists have learned how it sounded and even where it originated ...

Of course such dullards exist, and I have elsewhere in these pages chastised a couple of Latinists, of all people, for their ...

A ceasefire in Ukraine is of personal interest to almost half the world’s people—not only for geopolitical reasons, but ...

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 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 Auckland led by Dr. Quentin ...

In a beautiful illustration of the ultimate linguistic family tree ... which is the Indo-European trunk, from which nearly all modern languages originate. From there it splits into to two trees ...

For centuries, historians and linguists have been searching for the cradle of the Indo-Europeans, an ancient people who shaped history and created the world’s largest language family ...