How a Scientific Revolution is Rewriting Their Story is its starting point, specifically, determining where it was. He hopes ...

Ever wondered why some words look similar in different languages? With the majority of European languages, this is most often due to the fact that they all stem from a common ancestral language: Proto ...

In “Proto,” Laura Spinney details the centurieslong effort to reconstruct Proto-Indo-European (PIE), what linguists believe to be the mother tongue of a diverse constellation of languages from ...

An extinct set of Indo-European languages was spoken there during the Bronze Age. Linguists have long believed they represent an early split from proto-Indo-European. During the 21st century ...

Indo-European languages spoken by nearly half of the world today originated from an ancient population that lived in the North Caucasus mountains and the Lower Volga, according to a new DNA study ...

Today, linguists are in broad agreement on the basics of Indo-European language groupings and how they are related to one another. They agree that the original language, which they call Proto-Indo ...

Among the arresting things that Reich et al. argue is that we should speak of a precursor to Proto-Indo-European: Proto-Indo-Anatolian, which they believe split sometime between 4300 and 3500 B ...