For decades, the leading theory for the ubiquity of Indo–European languages was that early farmers, living in a region known ...

A pair of landmark studies, published Wednesday in the journal Nature, has finally identified the originators of the Indo-European family of 400-plus languages, spoken today by more than 40% of the ...

New research suggests that the first Indo-European speakers lived in southern Russia 6,500 years ago, challenging ...

Linguistic typology uses many criteria to compile statistics about world language families. Humans conclusively did not evolve in North or South America, meaning everyone here arrived from elsewhere.

In a beautiful illustration of the ultimate linguistic family tree ... a look at the origins of all other languages currently being spoken across the world. You’re now subscribed to all our ...