My mother used to tell a certain story at family parties when trying to explain why my sisters and I didn’t really speak Cantonese, my parents’ primary language. It’s probably a familiar ...

Of the Indian languages, I grew up only speaking Hindi. I had no idea what my family's second, regional language was. When I asked my father, his answer puzzled me. "Sindhi," he said. I had never ...

My initial survey established that Great Andamanese languages were unrelated to those of the Jarawa and the Onge, which may constitute their own language family. Realizing that I had to document ...

The origin of the Indo-European language family has been the “Holy Grail for many intellectuals and many not-so intellectuals” over the past few centuries, writes Spinney. “The arguments ...

revealing a potential source for the Indo-European language family, spoken by much of the world. “I think they are truly groundbreaking,” says Kristian Kristiansen, an archaeologist at the ...