Experts trace the rise of Indo-European languages as the largest family, from ancient migrations to modern dominance.

One of humanity's defining features is the ability to speak in complex languages. Today, nearly 7,000 languages are spoken worldwide and are grouped into about 140 families. The five largest language ...

It’s incredibly tricky to pin down the origin of the language that led to the words spoken everywhere between Spain and India – and it’ll be even harder to be sure we’ve got it right ...

In a beautiful illustration of the ultimate linguistic family tree, we're treated ... which is the Indo-European trunk, from which nearly all modern languages originate. From there it splits ...

The languages still uttered around Europe ... t illuminate the link between all the branches in the Indo-European family tree. By looking at the genetics of Bronze Age populations, the team ...

An curved arrow pointing right. The origin of Indo-European languages has long been a topic of debate among scholars and scientists. In 2012, a team of evolutionary biologists at the University of ...

For more than a century, linguists have linked the origins of the Indo-European language family, from which most European and all Indian languages emerged, to the Bronze Age Yamnaya, reports Haaretz.