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Question
Where did the speakers of Proto-Indo-European live?
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Proto-Indo-Europeans speakers lived in Anatolia

This position presents the Anatolian model of Proto-Indo-European origins. It holds that the speakers of the ancestral (pre-Proto-Indo-European) language lived in Anatolia — the region of modern-day Turkey — from which their language spread, an alternative to the Steppe hypothesis.

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  1. Proto-Indo-Europeans speakers lived on Anatolian Homeland
    A combination of linguistic and archaeological evidence shows that the pre-Proto-Indo-European homeland was in neolithic Anatolia (modern-day Turkey) and that this language subsequently split into different varieties of Proto-Indo-European.