Linguists believe that a large portion of the world’s languages trace their roots back to one common ancestor: ...

Laura Spinney’s “Proto: How One Ancient Language Went Global” explores the roots of language and how it spread and changed across time and place.

The roots of language Emma Wallis05/07/2013 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 ...

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 ...

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.

How 'mother tongue' spawned hundreds of modern languages Proto-Indo-European was last spoken between approximately 4,500 and 2,500 BC by our ancestors from all over Europe and Asia.

Rapid radiation of the inner Indo-European languages: an advanced approach to Indo-European lexicostatistics. Linguistics, 2021; 59 (4): 949 DOI: 10.1515/ling-2020-0060 ...

Modern Indo-European languages - which include English - originated in Turkey about 9,000 years ago, researchers say. Their findings differ from conventional theory that these languages originated ...