For decades, the leading theory for the ubiquity of Indo-European languages was that early farmers, living in a region known ...

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

Sanjana Bhambhani's ancestors fled their homeland during India's Partition – and her family gradually lost their mother ...

These language families, including Germanic, Indo-Iranian and Celtic, evolved from a common tongue called the Proto-Indo-European, whose origin has been a mystery. In the new study, researchers at ...

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

Have you ever wondered how Australia's many Indigenous languages relate to one another and how far back the connections go?

An international team of linguists has developed a novel approach for testing genealogical relations among language families, revealing new insights into the history of languages native to the Amazon ...

New research shows that mothers have twice the impact on language exposure, challenging traditional parenting advice. Parents hoping to raise bilingual children have long been given the advice to ...