It’s astonishing how much we’ve discovered about these languages that have gone unspoken and unheard for millennia. In the ...

By analyzing genetic material from over 400 individuals across Eurasia, researchers have traced the origins of Indo-European languages to a group known as the Caucasus-Lower Volga (CLV ...

D ante did like a category. Famously, he split sinners into different circles in Hell. Those who committed milder ...

Hunting the origin of 40 per cent of the languages spoken today is a huge feat, but Laura Spinney's new book makes an ...

Scholars believe a language used 5,000 years ago on the Asian steppe was the source of many of the world’s modern tongues.

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 Indo-European Language The descendants of this forgotten tongue include English, Sanskrit and Greek. By comparing its "daughter languages" with one another, linguists have learned how it ...

then carry on east all the way to India – and always speak to people whose language belongs to the same family. Receive a weekly dose of discovery in your inbox! We'll also keep you up to date ...

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 ...

Unsurprisingly, the UK is pretty low down the list. The vast majority of European languages come in some way from an Indo-Germanic ancestor that likely existed around the Caspian Sea area around ...