Turkey, Homeland of Indian Languages

Bangalore: The origins of languages such as Hindi, Russian, German and English have been traced to Anatolia, which is present-day Turkey, says a new study. Languages spoken in North India originated from an extinct language spoken by pre-historic farmers who lived in modern day Turkey almost 8,000-9,500 years ago, reports Kalyan Ray for Deccan Herald.

Indian languages that can trace their origin back to Anatolia include Hindi, Marathi, Gujarati, Bengali, Kashmiri, Oriya, Urdu, Marwari and Bhojpuri. All these languages along with English belong to a family called “Indo-European languages”. But, south Indian languages were not taken into consideration as they had a Dravidian origin.

This is one of the largest language families in the world and comprise of Celtic, Germanic, Italic, Balto-Slavic and Indo-Iranian languages.

As per a study published in Science, languages spoken by pre-historic farmers traveled across the globe and coinciding with the spread of agriculture branched out into 400 diverse languages, including a large number of modern languages spoken by three billion people in every colonized continents.

English, German, French, Spanish, Russian and Polish as well as Indo-Iranian languages like Persian and Hindi, and ancient ones such as Sanskrit and Greek are some of the well-known descendents.