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.

Learn more about groundbreaking genetic research that reveals a long-lost population and solves a centuries-old linguistic ...

Nearly half the world’s population speaks at least one of the roughly 400 Indo–European languages. These include nearly all European and Central Asian languages, as well as those from South ...

AMONG the many theories which in course of time have been propounded on the origin of language, that put forward by Sir Richard Paget in his work "Human Speech" (1930) is one which is most ...

A new study claims to have identified the first speakers of Indo-European language, which gave rise to English, Sanskrit and hundreds of others. By Carl Zimmer In 1786, a British judge named ...

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 ...

New research suggests that the first Indo-European speakers lived in southern Russia 6,500 years ago, challenging long-standing debates about the language family’s origins Ella Jeffries Staff ...

These language families, including Germanic, Indo-Iranian and Celtic, evolved from a common tongue called the Proto-Indo-European, whose origin has been a mystery. In the new study, researchers at ...

This revelation is part of what is said to be a potentially path-breaking initiative to explore Tamil’s connections to Indo-European languages, providing a new perspective on the evolution of words.