ABSTRACT
The question of the original homeland or Urheimat of the Indo-European family of languages is not a settled one: although most writers on the subject would support a theory that the family originated in “South Russia,” a general term for a large area stretching northwestwards from the Caspian Sea or for any specific part of this area, and spread by expansions and/or migrations to the other areas historically inhabited by speakers of Indo-European languages, this theory is not supported by the main academic disciplines involved in the study of the Indo-European homeland question, particularly in respect of the presence of these languages at the easternmost end of the Indo-European spectrum, that is, in South Asia.
