There is a long-standing proposal that all the Indigenous languages of continental Australia come from one language, called Proto-Australian. This hypothesis is based on observations, going back to ...

Ancient-DNA analyses identify a Caucasus Lower Volga people as the ancient originators of Proto-Indo-European, the precursor ...

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

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 ...

A new study claims to have identified the first speakers of Indo-European language, which gave rise to English, Sanskrit and ...

These language families, including Germanic, Indo-Iranian and Celtic, evolved from a common tongue called the ...

Learn about the Svingerud Stone, a runestone found in a Norwegian grave site that currently stands as the earliest written ...

Spinney tells the epic and fascinating story of how one ancient language – Proto-Indian-European – went global; its offspring languages are now spoken by disparate cultures from Scotland to China.

Where lies the origin of the Indo-European language family? Ron Pinhasi and his team in the Department of Evolutionary ...