Combined AnatolianKurgan hypothesis   I now think that the ProtoIndoEuropeans lived in presentday Turkey  Yet the Kurgan culture does play an important role in the evolution of IndoEuropean languages  I think it was founded by IndoEuropeans which immigrated to the Pontic steppe  The ones which did not leave were cultural ancestors of the speakers of Anatolian languages  The language of the Kurgan culture gave rise to all other IndoEuropean languages  These include all the ones spoken today  There were several early splinter groups from the Kurgan culture  Three of these were the cultural ancestors of the Armenians Greeks and Albanians  There may have been more but the languages descended from theirs are so poorly documented we dont know much of them  A larger splinter group from Kurgan culture was the Beaker people  This metalworking pastoral people spread over much of Europe  The areas were they settled includes almost all of WestCentral Europe the Italian and Iberian Peninsulas the large islands between them the British Islands Southern Scandinavia and probably parts of Eastern Europe north of the grasslands  With such a widespread culture they soon developed several different languages  These were ancestral of the Baltic Slavic Germanic Celtic and Italic including Romatic ones  The Kurgan people themselves developed into the ProtoIndoIranians many of which returned to the Middle East  With the Aryan migration to northern India the IndoAryan languages eventually splintered from the Iraniac ones  This happened not long before these two peoples started to write as Avestan and Vedic are relatively similar  What do you think about this hypothesis  No the Urheimat must be my country because we are the most superioruniqueoriginal argument please  No people in the world are intrinsically superior to any other ones  It is questionable if any people are uniquely unique  The most original of the living IndoEuropean languages is probably Lithuanian  Yet noone who is not a Lithuanian have seriously suggested the IndoEuropean Urheimat to be in Lithuania   Lena Synnerholm Mrsta Sweden