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 Auckland led by Dr. Quentin ...

Being one of the most widely spoken languages in Europe, German helps to connect nations and promote understanding across borders. Despite what many people think, the map showing the most spoken ...

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 ...

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They traced the origins of Indo-European languages to 7,800–9,800 years ago, supporting the Anatolian hypothesis. Critics were skeptical. Gray and Atkinson had determined when the languages ...

Using techniques for tracing virus outbreaks to map the evolution of languages, the study published in Science suggests Indo-European languages emerged 4,000 years earlier from Antaolia.