The "peace" thesis on the origin of the Indo-European language family postulates that the first Indo-European speakers may have been the Kurgan people, who lived near the border of present-day Russia and Kazakhstan.

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The "peace" thesis suggests that the spread and divergence of the Indo-European language family was not associated with any major conflict or invasion, and that it occurred gradually through regular contact and cultural exchange between neighboring groups. The Kurgan hypothesis, on the other hand, proposes that the first Indo-European speakers were a nomadic pastoralist culture from the Pontic-Caspian steppe (in present-day Ukraine and Russia) who spread their language and culture through a series of military conquests and migrations.

The "Peace" Thesis on the Origin of the Indo-European Language