These people, known as the Caucasus-Lower Volga (CLV) group, later gave rise to the Yamnaya, a nomadic herding culture that spread Indo-European languages across Eurasia. “It’s the first time ...

DNA Evidence of Ancient Population Hints at Common Ancestry of Indo-European Languages New insights regarding the origin of ...

A pair of landmark studies, published Wednesday in the journal Nature, has finally identified the originators of the ...

New genetic evidence traces the roots of English, Sanskrit, and hundreds of other languages to a group of hunter-gatherers in ...

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

Over 5,300 years ago, ancient herders known as the Yamna people emerged from the steppes of what is now Ukraine, going on to ...

Harvard researchers traced the origins of the vast Indo-European language family to the Caucasus-Lower Volga region, ...

Where lies the origin of the Indo-European language family? Researchers contribute a new piece to this puzzle. They analyzed ancient DNA from 435 individuals from archaeological sites across Eurasia ...

Lower Volga group therefore can be connected to all Indo-European-speaking populations and is the best candidate for the population that spoke Indo-Anatolian, the ancestor of both Hittite and all ...

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 ...