Languages were born in Anatolia

In 2012, a group of evolutionary biologists from the University of Auckland in New Zealand, published a study that claimed to find the root of Indo-European languages.

According to this study, all the languages ​​of the family were born in Anatolia, a province in central Turkey.

The study sparked no little controversy, but New Zealand researchers led by Quentin Atkinson said that the emergence of this conclusion the methodology used is very scientific.

Based on the outcome of this study, Business Insider published a video illustrating how they have evolved language of Indo-europianishtes. In this family is part of the Albanian language, together with Greek and Armenian are three separate branches, unrelated to any other language.

It is observed in this graph it is that the researchers New Zealand, the eagle is earlier than the Greek spoken in the Balkans vast territory, implying here Illyrian language.

As for Balto-Slavic branch, New Zealand researchers refer to the spoken language in the territories of Europe, many years before they happened Slavs.