Is it possible Europeans are partially decsended from Indians from India?

Question

I read about a theory that the languages in Europe came from India, doesn't that mean the people moved there?

Answer 1

You're way off...aliens! Aliens swooped out of the farthest nebula & stopped by at the planet Earth. Once planetside  they dropped off little parcels of pre-sorted humans & some kind of space victuals. We were then placed on different continents.

Then the aliens went home to their home planet, "Zulsh, The Auto Works" & watched gleefully at all the fun we humans are / were having.

Answer 2

Dee Dee above doesn't mention that less than one Brit in a thousand has an African Y chromosome does she? Mad as a hatter.

Answer 3

Linguistic anthropologists used lexicostatistics (a method almost identical to cladistics used in paleontology) to predict the amount of time-distance between Proto-Indo-European (a largely hypothetical language based on the statistical data) and modern European languages, and thenm using geographic tools, plotted a number of hypothetical migration routes which were checked against the historical record.  By the 1980s, well-known archaeologists like Sir Colin Renfrew were adding an archaeological perspective to this, and with the convergence of evidence from a few scientific disciplines and several quasi-scientific ones, it seemed that we had a clear picture.

More recently, genetic studies have refined the picture even further, but there is currently some disagreement regarding how well this evidence fits the model and how appropriately it has been applied.

Answer 4

I think we find our origins in Africa, not in India, cause you know the monkeys first lived there and then moved to Europe.

Answer 5

Yes, languages in India and Europe are called "Indo-European" languages. If you typed that word into your favorite search engine, you could read up on it.

Yes, it means that, most likely, people from India travelled west to populate Europe, taking their older language(s?) with them. Over time, the languages changed, but retained certain similarities, especially among the most commonly-used words.

Answer 6

That would explain the plethora of curry everywhere in the east. lol

Answer 7

In fact it is the other way around. From Africa, to Europe, To India, then to the East, then Russia, then to the USA. But south of India is a different path - came directly from Africa.

Answer 8

yes

Answer 9

originated in asia, then to india, then to europe.

Answer 10

NO.

More likely Africans .  Then again, all of us are descended from Africans.

Answer 11

Since all the explanations of human origins are technically still theories and haven't been completely proven ... I guess anything is possible at this point.

Although most scientist are leaning towards all humans originating in Africa, including Europeans. However, there has been evidence that says otherwise as well. So right now who knows?

Answer 12

Not exactly. We share common ancestry between the Black sea and Pakistan, and expanded outwards from there. We have the same root language as Hindi, called PIE (proto Indo European). The exact location of it's first speakers are a bit of a mystery though.

DNA studies seem to suggest Southern Russia and Anataolia (Turkey)..

Piazza & Cavalli-Sforza (2006) state that:

"if the expansions began at 9,500 years ago from Anatolia and at 6,000 years ago from the Yamnaya culture region, then a 3,500-year period elapsed during their migration to the Volga-Don region from Anatolia, probably through the Balkans. There a completely new, mostly pastoral culture developed under the stimulus of an environment unfavourable to standard agriculture, but offering new attractive possibilities. Our hypothesis is, therefore, that Indo-European languages derived from a secondary expansion from the Yamnaya culture region after the Neolithic farmers, possibly coming from Anatolia and settled there, developing pastoral nomadism.

About his old teacher's proposal, Wells (2002) states that "there is nothing to contradict this model, although the genetic patterns do not provide clear support either," and instead argues that the evidence is much stronger for Gimbutas' model:

while we see substantial genetic and archaeological evidence for an Indo-European migration originating in the southern Russian steppes, there is little evidence for a similarly massive Indo-European migration from the Middle East to Europe. One possibility is that, as a much earlier migration (8,000 years old, as opposed to 4,000), the genetic signals carried by Indo-European-speaking farmers may simply have dispersed over the years."

Southern Indians are a different matter, as they are more closely related to the South East Asians and Australoids, the first people from Africa settled there as they followed the Asian coast around. Some Tamils are absolutely jet black, and still look fresh from Africa.

BTW, anyone reading Dee Dee's ludicrous answer.. African Y chromosomes are so uncommon in the UK that they get mentioned in science journal, and one of them is actually from Caucasian North African Berbers, not black Africans.

http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/article...

If Europeans are descended fro Nigerians, how come WE LOOK NOTHING LIKE THEM! She's mad.

Answer 13

so you mean our ape ancestor came from india?

Answer 14

Aren't European languages based on Sanskrit, and that originated in India!