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- Indo-European has been the object of linguistic study since the early 19th century, when early scholars established the main goals of the field: 1) to describe and explain the historical development of languages belonging to its ten branches (Indo-Iranian, Greek, Anatolian, Tocharian, Italic, Celtic, Germanic, Balto-Slavic, Armenian, Albanian), and 2) to reconstruct Proto-Indo-European (PIE), a prehistoric "proto-language" ancestral to all these branches.
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Feb 19, 2024 · February 19, 2024. 11 min read. New Linguistics Technique Could Reveal Who Spoke the First Indo-European Languages. Linguists and archaeologists have argued for decades about where and when the...
Feb 12, 2024 · One such analysis, published in 2012, pointed to an origin of Indo-European about 9,000 years ago in Anatolia, supporting the theory that Indo-European originated with farmers. But just three years later, a different team used much the same data to conclude that the origin was just 6,000 years ago on the steppes, supporting the opposite view ...
A new study of ancient DNA from 727 individuals who lived in the regions cradling the southern half of the Black Sea, and extending into the Levant and western Iran, narrows the hunt for the origins of Indo-European languages—spoken today as a first language by almost half the world’s population.
Jul 27, 2023 · Aug. 31, 2021 — A new linguistic study sheds light on the nature of languages spoken before the written period, using computational modeling to reconstruct the grammar of the 6500-7000 year-old...
- Support from Genetic Evidence
- Origins of The Yamnaya
- Completing The Arc of Indo-European Expansion
The ancient Indo-European languages spoken in Anatolia and on the steppe appear to have split from a common proto-language.Anatolia was genetically isolated after this split.The Anatolian and steppe speakers of these early Indo-European languages share a common ancestry somewhere in West Asia.Analysis of the new genetic data reveals that the Yamnaya and Anatolian peoples share a common ancestry in the highlands of West Asia.
Some men living in Armenia today are direct patrilineal descendants of the Yamnaya.In Greece, traces of the genes of steppe peoples suggest they integrated with the locals, rather than replacing them, raising new questions about how Indo-European languages spread there.The Indo-European Language Family - September 2022. 1.1 Background . The study of the genealogical relationship between the Indo-European languages has been the object of research ever since August Schleicher’s famous Stammbaum representation of the then-known subgroups, or branches (Reference Schleicher 1861: 7; see also Reference Schleicher 1853: 787).
Jun 10, 2021 · Indo-European has been the object of linguistic study since the early 19th century, when early scholars established the main goals of the field: 1) to describe and explain the historical development of languages belonging to its ten branches (Indo-Iranian, Greek, Anatolian, Tocharian, Italic, Celtic, Germanic, Balto-Slavic, Armenian, Albanian ...
