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How Language Spread Reflects Historical Migration Routes

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The spread of the Indo-European language family, which includes English, Spanish, Hindi, and Russian, traces back to a single ancestral language spoken around 6,000 years ago in the Pontic-Caspian steppe—a region now part of Ukraine and Russia.

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Think of the languages you speak. Why do some languages sound alike across continents while others differ drastically within a small region? The answer lies in centuries of human movement.