One of the highlights of this bleak period in US history, known so far as 2025, is the generous cleavage of Lauren Sánchez, ...

Eagle-eyed trackheads following the Ostrava Golden Spike in Czechia might have noticed American hurdler Chris Robinson, an NCAA champion at Alabama, winning the 400 meters with some unorthodox form.

How did the language you are reading come to exist? The Indo-European family of languages covers most of Europe, the Iranian ...

Filip Vezdin, a Croatian missionary and scholar, pioneered Sanskrit studies in Europe. His printed grammar, cultural analyses ...

Wilson tracks Spark from Edinburgh to Africa and then London, offering an original and engaging exploration of the making of ...

In a paper published in Nature in February this year by Iosif Lazaridis of Harvard, based on the ancient DNA of 435 ...

The legendary actor Kamal Haasan is under attack from various quarters in Karnataka for his comments that Kannada was born out of Tamil during an event to promote his film in the presence of Kannada ...

Laura Spinney’s “Proto: How One Ancient Language Went Global” explores the roots of language and how it spread and changed across time and place.

Thousands of miles apart, people who speak English, Icelandic or Iranic use more or less the same words: star, stjarna, stare. All three of these languages - and hundreds more - share a single ancient ...

The reconstructed lexicon of Proto-Indo-European has only about 1,600 words, and at its dawn the language may have been spoken by as few as 100 people—people who didn’t need words for such ...

In “Proto,” Laura Spinney details the centurieslong effort to reconstruct Proto-Indo-European (PIE), what linguists believe to be the mother tongue of a diverse constellation of languages from ...