[Renfield]

Using methods from evolutionary biology, the duo compared common words in 87 Indo-European languages, such as 'mother', 'hunt' and 'sky', to figure out how language ‘species’ were related to one another4. They traced the origins of Indo-European languages to 7,800–9,800 years ago, supporting the Anatolian hypothesis...

[Renfield]

Ping.

Proposed spread of language, animated:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=0pa7SPns8fQ

[The_Reader_David]

The title is absurd: Turkish is an Altaic language.

Why folks outside the Turkish Republic accept the conceit of Ataturk and his political heirs that everything inside the bounds of the modern Republic of Turkey is “Turkish”, when most of the history and much of the culture even after the region was overrun by the Turks was Greek, Armenian, Kurdish, Roman, Persian,. . . always mystifies me. The sort of willful historical ignorance, endemic among Americans, that can’t see further into the past than WW II, I suppose.

[Verginius Rufus]

That Sanskrit is related to Latin, Greek, and other European languages was first realized in the late 1700s so a lot of this is not new and has been worked on by many scholars for a long time. The notion that the original homeland of the ancestral language from which Indo-European languages descended might be Turkey is also not new--but is less popular than other suggestions for where the original homeland was. I think the area north of the Black Sea is the most widely-accepted theory nowadays. The time frame for when the ancestral language (Proto-Indo-European) was spoken is usually put more recently than 5800-7800 B.C.

The ancient Anatolian branch of Indo-European, including Hittite, Luwian, and Palaic in the second millennium B.C., and some later languages such as Lydian, are rather different from the other languages and that branch seems to have diverged from the rest a little earlier. That does not seem to fit in with Anatolia being the original center from which all the later languages spread out.

[P.O.E.]

Pachalafaka sounds so romantic in Turkey.

[jimtorr]

While I don’t want to sound too literal, headline writers can be so ignorant.

“Turkish” refers to a country, a language group and a wide-spread ethnic group. All three have Indo-European roots, but the Article refers to Anatolia, not Turkey.

[Zionist Conspirator]

The title of the article is misleading. A “Turkish origin” doesn’t imply geographical Anatolia but rather an origin among ethno-cultural Turkish groups from central Asia who eventually migrated to Anatolia, which then became “Turkey” (after themselves).

[Jack Hydrazine]

Didn’t Noah’s boat land in Turkey after the Flood?

[SeeSharp]

LOL. There were no Turks in Turkey 8000 years ago.

And oh and by the way, These modern day "Turks" are really just badly baptized Greeks anyhow. ...to paraphrase Doroshevich

[US Navy Vet]

See Genesis 10

[Buckeye McFrog]

So now in addition to Astronomy, Mathematics, the Space Program, Brain Surgery, Nanotechnology and Spicy Take-Out Chicken, Muslims are getting credit for inventing the English Language too?

[mamelukesabre]

How is this possible when aryans/indo-iranians/indo-aryans and sanskrit came from india?