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Massive migration from the steppe was a source for Indo-European languages in Europe

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Yamnaya / Steppe Migration / Indo-European Expansion

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Foundational 2015 Nature ancient-DNA paper documenting substantial steppe-related ancestry in Late Neolithic Corded Ware individuals; direct evidence for migration, with language spread inferred through archaeological and linguistic fit.

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Yamnaya / Steppe Migration / Indo-European Expansion

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Ancient DNA strongly supports major Yamnaya-related migration; linking it to many Indo-European spreads is a convergent archaeological-linguistic inference, not a genetic observation.

The migration is strongly supported; the exact language link is inferred from multiple lines of evidence, not directly observed.
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Yamnaya-related expansions are central to models for many Indo-European branches, but 'the original Indo-Europeans' collapses pre-Yamnaya ancestry and the Anatolian problem.

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Ancient DNA supports major migration but cannot by itself determine whether language spread through conquest, elite dominance, intermarriage, or other regional processes.

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