I was born in Baku, behind the Caucasus, in Azerbaidjan ... As they were "Mountain Jews," they spoke an old Persian dialect that had been the language of Mountain Jews for centuries, and today has ...

At the heart of this discovery was the Caucasus-Lower Volga (CLV ... found to date to explain the origin of the Indo-European language family," said Ron Pinhasi, a professor at the University ...

Harvard researchers traced the origins of the vast Indo-European language family to the Caucasus-Lower Volga region, identifying the ancestral population that gave rise to more than 400 languages ...