History shows that linguistics evolve in unpredictable ways — and that the supremacy of English is not guaranteed.

Based on both lexical and, especially, archaeological evidence, the standard view among scholars has for some time been that the Proto-Indo-European homeland was on the Pontic-Caspian steppe ...

This “homeland” of Indo-Europeans was “one of the most genetically and culturally complex places in Eurasia; it had many more genetic strains coming in and mixing than you would see in the ...

An extinct set of Indo-European languages was spoken there during ... of the fighting is happening right now—that's the Yamnaya homeland," Anthony said. What is now clear is that a population ...

Indo-European languages—including English ... “Where the worst of the fighting is happening right now—that’s the Yamnaya homeland,” archaeologist and study co-author David Anthony ...

The oldest Indo-European writing, dating back 3,700 years ... the CLV people expanded out of their homeland. One wave moved west into what is now Ukraine and interbred with hunter-gatherers.

The language family began to diverge from around 8100 years ago, out of a homeland immediately south of the Caucasus (P. Heggarty et al., Science) The research suggests the Indo-European language ...

evolved from a common tongue called the Proto-Indo-European, whose origin has been a mystery. In the new study, researchers at Vienna University analysed DNA samples of 435 people from ...

Credit: Natalia Shishlina (co-author of "The Genetic Origin of the Indo-Europeans") Photo of Remontnoye (3766–3637 calBCE), with a spiral temple ring. Credit: Natalia Shishlina (co-author of ...

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.