Languages are not isolated entities, but belong to linguistic families—English is a west Germanic language from the Indo-European family ... linguists compare cognates (the same words in ...

By analyzing genetic material from over 400 individuals across Eurasia, researchers have traced the origins of Indo-European languages to a group known as the Caucasus-Lower Volga (CLV ...

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 ...