A pair of studies published in Nature suggests that an early form of Indo-European was first spoken about 6,500 years ago by a group of people living in what is now southern Russia, between the ...

The CLV people who came to Anatolia, Dr. Reich argues, gave rise to early Indo-European languages like Hittite. (This would also fit with the early Indo-European writing found in Anatolia.) ...

Who were these people? And how did their language ... argue that the first Indo-European speakers were early farmers in the Fertile Crescent, not hunter-gatherers in southern Russia.

Almost half of all people in the world today speak ... a linguist at Cambridge University, also finds the early date for Proto-Indo-European, and other details of the tree, unconvincing.