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During the past decade, the ancient DNA revolution has had a massive impact on the scholarly debates on the origins and dispersals of language families. Now, linguists are asking the question: does linguistic and genetic evidence paint the same picture of the human past? This book sheds new light on an old hypothesis on the relatedness of Indo-Iranian and Balto-Slavic languages, by studying unique lexical correspondences of these branches. It argues that their common Indo-Slavic origin supports an emerging picture based on ancient DNA, which shows a genetic relationship between prehistoric populations of Eastern Europe and Central Asia.

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Axel I. Palmér, Ph.D. (2024, Leiden University), is currently a fellow at the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study (Uppsala). His research focuses on the origin and development of the Indo-European languages in prehistory, with papers such as Indo-European Cereal Terminology Suggests a Northwest Pontic Homeland for the Core Indo-European Languages (PLoS ONE, 2022).

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