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Thursday, August 23, 2012

A Turkish origin for Indo-European languages : Nature News & Comment

A Turkish origin for Indo-European languages

Disease-mapping methods add geographical history to language family tree.

Alyssa Joyce

23 August 2012

Languages as diverse as English, Russian and Hindi can trace their roots back more than 8,000 years to Anatolia — now in modern-day Turkey. That's the conclusion of a study1 that assessed 103 ancient and contemporary languages using a technique normally used to study the evolution and spread of disease. The researchers hope that their findings can settle a long-running debate about the origins of the Indo-European language group.

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