We know that the Proto-Indo-European language appeared somewhere between 5,500 and 9,000 years ago, and the study suggests it only spread to Europe about 6,500 years ago.

Proto-Indo-European was last spoken between approximately 4,500 and 2,500 BC by our ancestors from all over Europe and Asia. ... Most of the European languages including English, ...

This language known as Proto Indo European is likely to have existed between 4,500 BCE and 2,500 BCE (estimates vary by 1,000 years) following which it split off into its various branches as its ...

Today, linguists are in broad agreement on the basics of Indo-European language groupings and how they are related to one another. They agree that the original language, which they call Proto-Indo ...

On the other side we have the Steppe Hypothesis, which places the origin of Indo-European languages further north, in the Pontic Steppe.This theory states that Proto-Indo-European language emerged ...

An extinct set of Indo-European languages was spoken there during the Bronze Age. Linguists have long believed they represent an early split from proto-Indo-European. During the 21st century ...

Through a process of inferring backwards, from the later known languages to an earlier unknown source, linguists have attempted to reconstruct the originating Proto-Indo-European language.

A decades long debate abut where that singular ancestral language, dubbed Proto-Indo-European or PIE, sprang into being may be settled by two studies being readied for publication, researchers say.

Originating from the Proto-Indo-European (PIE) language, historians and linguists since the 19th century have been investigating its origins and spread as there is still a knowledge gap.

Between approximately 4,500 and 2,500 B.C., the ancestors of much of Europe and Asia once spoke the same mother tongue, a language referred to as Proto-Indo-European, or PIE. Although there is no ...