Where do Indo-European languages come from? A new study tackles this 200-year-old question and supports the contentious view that they first emerged in Anatolia – modern-day Turkey – 8,000 to 9,500 years ago, and spread with the expansion of farming.
Almost 3bn people are native speakers of Indo-European languages, which include English, Russian and the many tongues of Europe, as well as Hindi and Bengali.
Two main theories compete over the origin of the world’s largest family of languages.
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