Researchers led by Professor Mark Pagel at the University of Reading have just published a report which finds that Indo-European languages came from a common root, a proto-Eurasian, about 15,000 ...

A study on Indo-European languages, using direct linguistic data, reconciles the two dominant hypotheses of where and how they immerged.

The Proto-Indo-European language is thought to have originated on the steppes to the north of the Caspian Sea but has led to 445 modern languages. The map above shows the spread of modern Indo ...

A team of researchers is using a novel technique to comb through the data and to reconstruct major branches in the linguistic tree.

Linguistic Family Tree The work of linguists Will Chang, Chundra Cathcart, David Hall and Andrew Garrett has led to a breakthrough in knowledge about Indo-European languages.

Proto Indo-European is thought to be one of the precursor to languages as diverse as English and Hindi. Google Translate Languages are constantly evolving, spawning offshoots and mashups and cross ...

In “Proto,” Laura Spinney details the centurieslong effort to reconstruct Proto-Indo-European (PIE), what linguists believe to be the mother tongue of a diverse constellation of languages from ...

Half of All Languages Come From This One Root Tongue. Here’s How it Conquered the Earth. Today, three billion people speak Indo-European langauges ...

Modern Indo-European languages - which include English - originated in Turkey about 9,000 years ago, research concludes.

A family tree representing the transmission of "The Smith and the Devil" from Proto-Indo-European-speaking ancestors to modern language groups.