The chalet first conquered the world – and then Switzerland. So why is it considered a quintessentially Swiss building?

The Italic languages had already diverged into Latin, Oscan, Umbrian and possibly Venetic – a language which, as its name ...

Spinney makes the case that PIE’s viral spread is, and I quote, “easily the most important event of the last five millennia ...

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 ...

Together, we’ll climb Bruno’s musical family tree and find out… Who Influences ... You know, you hear music and it's part of the language. It'd be like attempting to speak without using ...

These languages derive from Proto-Indo-European (PIE), an ancestral language whose reconstruction has been the subject of study for generations. Although it has long been recognized that the Yamnaya ...

philologists have worked to reconstruct the first Indo-European language (known as Proto-Indo-European) and establish a “language family tree”, where branches represent the evolution and separation of ...

People were able to say some things about the ‘proto-language’, the common ancestor language ... us to understand a bit more about the relations within the Indo-European family tree – which languages ...

We can go even further back in time to the grandparent of English — a language called “Proto-Indo-European”. About 6,000 years ago, the word “tree” probably looked like “dōru-”.

For example, the Proto-Indo-European language had a word for axle ... In essence, the computer program works by drawing a language tree and estimating the probability that it is correct given ...