evolved from a common tongue called the Proto-Indo-European, whose origin has been a mystery. In the new study, researchers at Vienna University analysed DNA samples of 435 people from ...

Originating from the Proto-Indo-European (PIE) language, historians and linguists since the 19th century have been investigating its origins and spread as there is still a knowledge gap.

Co-author David Anthony, an anthropology professor emeritus at Hartwick University, explained how linguistics evidence was one of the keys to tracking back where and when the Proto-Indo-Europeans ...

Reich's lab has been pursuing proto-Indo-European speakers for more than 15 years. In 2014, they shared key insights in a Nature article on what Reich called "the profound mixing event" that ...

But the comparative method is emphatically not just about Indo-European: it works for all languages—unsurprisingly, its results are most impressive when ample material is available over time and space ...

“Indo-European languages are often seen as a distinct language group. With this treatise, we aim to demonstrate Tamil’s connection to the Proto-Indo-European (PIE) proto-language, showing how ...

Prior to this study, the only branch of Indo-European-speaking populations that were not proven to share in steppe ancestry were those speaking Anatolian, which includes the Hittites. Hittite, as a ...