We have been looking for the mysterious ancestor town of the Indo -Europeans. We have a new track in DNA

We know that Latin languages ​​have their common origin in Latin peoples such as the one that ended up forging the Roman Empire. We know that Germanic languages ​​had their origin in the Germanic tribes that at that same time inhabited northern Europe. But these two language families have a common trunk that goes back to prehistory, the language protoindoeuropeo. Now, who spoke this language?

CLV. A new study He has discoveredthrough a genetic analysis in several archaeological sites in Europe, a new prehistoric group, an archaic society that they have called people of the Caucasus-Bajo Volga or CLV (Caucasus-Lower Volga). As the study concludes, this town could be linked to the protoindo -European language and with Its expansion.

The protoindoeuropeo. The protoindoeuropeo (foot) language is the “common ancestor” of numerous contemporary languages, including Spanish and the rest of languages ​​spoken in the Peninsula (except Basque). A list that includes from English to Persian, through Russian and Greek. It is estimated that about half of the world population speaks languages ​​with this origin.

This language would have been the speech of one or more prehistoric peoples of the border region between Europe and Asia. The migrations starring this group would have given rise to the speakers of this language ending their linguistic imprint in much of Eurasia. And more than linguistics, also genetics.

From Yamnaya to Clv. Genetics had already given us important clues about these peoples, allowing us The so -called Yamnaya culturea population that would have inhabited the steppes north of the Caspian between the years 3,300 and 2,600 before our era. These analyzes had focused on this culture as probable vector of Indo -European expansion around the year 3,100 aec

But there was a problem with its own name: the Anatolias languages, a group of languages ​​already extinct among which was included, for example, the hitita. These languages ​​would have been the first to break down from the common Indo -European trunk, before acquiring “steppe features.”

This implied that this separation would have occurred before the arrival of Yamnaya culture and that there should be a protoindo -European group prior to this from which both anatolias languages ​​arose and those that would later derive in the Greek, Latin or Celta. Now, the new Study points to the people of the CLV as possible common ancestors of both.

More than 4,000 years ago. All thanks to genetics. The new work studied the DNA of 435 individuals found in various archaeological sites in Eurasia, covering a period between the years6,400 and 2,000 AEC the details of the study were broken down In an article Posted in the magazine Nature.

Missing link. Genetic analysis pointed out that Yamnaya’s group would have inherited about 80% of its ancestry of the CLV population, which in turn would have legacked about 10% of its ancestry to the anatolians. This makes this mysterious group the common ancestors of the populations that initiated the expansion of Indo -European languages ​​during the Copper Age.

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