Urheimat

Urheimat (German: ur- original, ancient; Heimat home, homeland) is a linguistic term meaning the original homeland of the speakers of a proto-language. Since many peoples tend to wander and spread, there is no exact Urheimat, but there is an Indo-European Urheimat different from the Germanic or Romance Urheimat. Recent studies say the original home of Indo-Europeans was near the Armenian Highlands.Russell D. Grey & Quentin D. Atkinson, "Language-tree divergence times support the Anatolian Theory of Indo-European origin," Nature 426(26 Nov. 2003) 435-439; Cavalli-Sforza, Genes, Peoples and Languages, 159-163; Cavalli-Sforza, History and Geography, 300, 297, 264-65.

Specific hypotheses:
Kurgan hypothesis
Anatolian hypothesis
Armenian hypothesis
Out of India theory

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Linguistics and Ideology in the Study of Language by E. F. K. Koerner, University of Ottawa  On linguistics and the  search for the original Indo-European homeland

Category:Indo-European
Category:Origin hypotheses of ethnic groups