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 ...

Harvard researchers traced the origins of the vast Indo-European language family to the Caucasus-Lower Volga region, identifying the ancestral population that gave rise to more than 400 languages ...

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 ...

They agree that the original language, which they call Proto-Indo-European, split into 10 or 11 main branches, two of which are now extinct. They also generally agree on where to put languages ...

The team suggests that the Indo-Iranic branch of the language broke off earlier, around 7000 years ago. This new “hybrid” idea therefore takes aspects of both the steppe and farming hypotheses.

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.

There are about 7,000 languages spoken in the world today; they can be divided into about 140 families. Nevertheless, the languages most of us speak belong to just five: Indo-European, Sino ...

Indo-European languages—including English, Russian, Greek, Bengali and more—are spoken by nearly half of the world’s population. For decades, ...

Prior to this study, the only branch of Indo-European-speaking populations that were not proven to share in steppe ancestry were those speaking Anatolian, which includes the Hittites. Hittite, as a ...

How Migration and Soft Power Made Indo-European Languages Dominant. History shows that linguistics evolve in unpredictable ways — and that the supremacy of English is not guaranteed.