New research identifies the prehistoric progenitors of Uralic languages in northeastern Siberia, about 4,500 years ago, challenging previous theories that placed their origins near the Ural Mountains.
Harvard researchers traced the origins of the vast Indo-European language family to the Caucasus-Lower Volga region, identifying the ancestral population known as the Yamnaya, who appeared around 3300 BCE and spread from Hungary to western China.
