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Indo-European languages are spoken by
half of the world's population. The most
-spoken members of this family are English, Hindi, Urdu, Spanish, Bengali, French, Russian, Portuguese and Punjabi. Each of
have over 100 million
speakers. More than 80 language
created a huge databank of core
from 161 Indo-European languages. The study included 52
and historical languages. Study co-author and Associate-Professor Russell Gray said: "Ancient DNA and [evolutionary language
] combine to suggest that the resolution to the 200-year-old Indo-European
lies in a hybrid of the [Steppe and Anatolia]
."