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Language & Communication
The Language Families That Reveal the Ancient Migration Patterns of Humanity
Fact 1 of 254%
Indo-European languages dominate half the planet from a single prehistoric source.
Reconstruction of the Yamnaya people of the Eurasian steppe.
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Nearly 3.2 billion people speak languages derived from a single nomadic tribe on the Pontic-Caspian steppe. This massive expansion was fueled by the domestication of horses and the invention of the wheel.
"46% of the world's population speaks an Indo-European language."
These migrations fundamentally rewrote the genetic map of Europe and South Asia 5,000 years ago.
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