Scholars believe a language used 5,000 years ago on the Asian steppe was the source of many of the world’s modern tongues.

It argues that, sometime in the fourth millennium BCE or before, residents of the steppes of western Asia and the Black Sea ...

Roughly five millennia ago, a small band of nomads set out from their homeland around the Black Sea. On the wide-open grasslands of the steppe, they honed their skills as horsemen and herders and ...