language, screen size, supported technologies etc.) can be stored or read on your device to recognise it each time it connects to an app or to a website, for one or several of the purposes ...

discussed the language (unique among the “Indo European” language tree), and read poems. I like snacking on these foods as well — especially when on deadline (literally this very minute!).

Imagine being able to travel back thousands of years, not with a time machine, but through the words our ancestors spoke. It ...

Hittite writing wasn’t unlocked until 1915, when a linguist in Prague named Bedřich Hrozný realized that the unearthed tablets were written in an Indo-European language—the earliest known ...

discussed the language (unique among the “Indo European” language tree), and read poems. I like snacking on these foods as well — especially when on deadline (literally this very minute!). Nuts give ...

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 ...

Today, nearly 7,000 languages are spoken worldwide and are grouped into about 140 families. The five largest language families are Indo-European, Sino-Tibetan, Niger-Congo, Afro-Asiatic, and ...

Proto: How One Ancient Language Went Global. By Laura Spinney. Bloomsbury; 352 pages; $29.99. William Collins; £22 Dante did like a category. Famously, he split sinners into different circles in ...

Retracing the journey of the Indo-European language 352pp, Rs599; HarperCollins (The story of an ancient language that changed the world) One ancient language transformed our world. This is its story.

What is interesting is that among the European languages ... These included Aramaic, a northwest Semitic language which was a long-standing literary and liturgical language and the lingua franca ...

Lord Stirrup, who served as head of the Armed Forces between 2006 and 2010, said the “umbrella of American might” is now looking “somewhat leaky” as he encouraged European members of Nato ...