Indo-European Languages Originated 6,000 Years Ago in Russian Grasslands
Proto - Indo - European is the ancestral tongue of 400 languages and dialects , including English , German , Italian , Greek , and Hindi . It appeared in historic records go out back 3,700 year , but research worker havelong debatedover where and when Proto - Indo - European arise and how it spread . Some say it happen around 9,000 years ago in Anatolia ( New - Clarence Day Turkey ) and then dispersed along with agriculture ; others think that it arose between 6,500 and 5,500 years ago in the grassy steppe lands of Ukraine and Russia , Union of the pitch-dark and Caspian seas ....