Before Babel.(spread of Indo-European languages)(Brief Article)

U.S. News & World Report | December 8, 2003| | Copyright

From English to Hindi, the languages spoken across a broad swath of Europe and Asia have a common ancestor. But for decades, linguists have disagreed over whether the original Indo-European tongue was spread by nomadic horsemen riding from Asia's steppes 6,000 years ago or by farmers, migrating thousands of years earlier from Turkey. Now researchers have turned to an idea first proposed by Charles Darwin--that languages evolve and branch like biological species.

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