Turkey, Homeland of Indian Languages

Michael Dunn from Radboud University in the Netherlands and one of the authors of the study said “To the untrained ear, languages like English, Dutch, Spanish, Russian, Greek and Hindi might all sound very different from each other but in fact, they show remarkable similarities because of which scholars concluded that these languages and hundreds of others across Europe and Near East are in fact all related, having sprung from a common source,” as reported by Deccan Herald.

Earlier some researchers had proposed that Anatolia was the source of this language family, beginning 8,000 to 9,500 years ago. But there is an alternate hypothesis suggesting, the Indo-European language originated in north of the Caspian Sea in the Russian steppes, where it was first circulated by a semi-nomadic, horse-riding people known as the “Kurgan”, starting about 6,000 years ago.

It is further noted that the word 'mother', which is 'mutter' in German, 'mat' in Russian, 'madar' in Persian, 'ma' in Hindi and 'materi in Latin are all cognates derived from the proto-Indo-European word 'mehter'.