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 ...

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

For centuries, historians and linguists have been searching for the cradle of the Indo-Europeans, an ancient people who shaped history and created the world’s largest language family ...

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 ...

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.