Despite numerous studies, many questions still remain as to the origin of Indo-European: where was the original Indo-European language spoken in prehistoric times? How long ago did this language group emerge? How did it spread across Eurasia? New Study Reconciles Two Dominant Hypotheses About Their Origin. There are two main, though apparently contradictory, established hypotheses. On one side we have the Anatolian Hypothesis, which traces the origins of the Indo-European people to Anatolia, in modern day Turkey, during the Neolithic era. On the other side we have the Steppe Hypothesis, which places the origin of Indo-European languages further north, in the Pontic Steppe.

“Language trees with sampled ancestors support a hybrid model for the origin of Indo-European languages”

DOI: 10.1126/science.abg0818