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Mapping the Origins and Expansion of the Indo-European Language Family
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A Family of Languages: English is part of the large Indo-European language family, which includes Celtic, Germanic, Italic, Balto-Slavic, and Indo-Iranian languages. The origin of this family is hotly debated: one hypothesis places the origin north of the Caspian Sea in the Pontic steppes, from where it was disseminated by Kurgan semi-nomadic pastoralists; a second suggests that Anatolia, in modern-day Turkey, is the source, and the language radiated with the spread of agriculture. Bouckaert et al. (p. 957 ) used phylogenetic methods and modeling to assess the geographical spread of the Indo-European language group. The findings support the suggestion that the origin of the language family was indeed Anatolia 7 to 10 thousand years ago—contemporaneous with the spread of agriculture.
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- Bouckaert, R., Lemey, P., Dunn, M., Greenhill, S. J., Alekseyenko, A. V., Drummond, A. J., Gray, R. D., Suchard, M. A., & Atkinson, Q. D.
- Venue
- Science
- Published
- 2012-08-24
- Volume
- 337
- Issue
- 6097
- Pages
- 957-960
- ISSN
- 0036-8075 (ISSN-L)
- 1095-9203
- OpenAlex
- W2098524338
- Cited by
- 801
- References
- 6
- FWCI
- 357.46
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
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