A new study reveals fresh clues about Indo-European language origins, tracing an ancestral group's key role in their spread.

DNA study cracks centuries-old mystery over origin of languages spoken by half the world - Indo-European languages traced to ...

Ancient DNA analysis provides new insights into our linguistic roots. Where did the Indo-European language family originate?

Where lies the origin of the Indo-European language family? Ron Pinhasi and his team in the Department of Evolutionary ...

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

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.

Other Iranian languages of note are Old Persian and Avestan (the sacred language of the Zoroastrians for which texts exist from the 6th century BCE). West and East Iranian comprise the Iranian group ...

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 ...

Peoples speaking languages of the Indo-Iranian subgroup of the Indo-European language family probably entered Iran from the northeast early in the second millennium BCE. The indigenous inhabitants ...

My research focuses on three primary areas: Indo-European linguistics (especially syntax), Oceanic linguistics (especially Micronesian), and general diachronic phonology/syntax (and their interface).