New Hypothesis Shakes Up Indo-European Language Origin Theories

New Hypothesis Shakes Up Indo-European Language Origin Theories

Nearly 450 languages of Europe, America and Asia belong to a Indo-European Language Family (Tree). It is considered that Vedic Sanskrit may be the ancestor of all these languages. 

A paper has just appeared in the journal Science by a team of over 80 linguists and geneticists of the world headed by a team from Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology analyzing 161 languages.

Their findings suggest an initial origin south of the Caucasus, with subsequent branching northwards onto the Steppe, and estimate the Indo-European language family to be approximately 8100 years old with five main branches already split off by around 7000 years ago.

The language family began to diverge from around 8100 years ago, out of a homeland immediately south of the Caucasus. One migration reached the Pontic-Caspian and Forest Steppe around 7000 years ago, and from there subsequent migrations spread into parts of Europe around 5000 years ago.

For information, the Indian branch of the Indo-European Tree belongs to the Indo-Iranian or Indo-Aryan branch (see the figure)

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