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Europe’s Languages Were Carried From the East, DNA Shows

New DNA evidence suggests that herders from the grasslands of today’s Russia and Ukraine carried the roots of modern European languages across the continent some 4,500 years ago.

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2015/03/150303-human-dna-europe-language-archaeology/

Original study:

http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nature14317.html