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

The U.S. Census estimates 85% of Georgians speak English, while 15% speak other languages at home. Here's a look at what the ...

European countries will be able to fill in the gaps left by the U.S. military on the continent with proper planning, the ...

Both eastern and western dialect clusters share the label “Indo-European” because, by the time linguists noticed the family resemblance in the 18th century, they were spoken from Europe to the ...

Linguistics, working on sound shifts, has given us about 1,600 words in Proto-Indo-European, which no one has spoken in over ...

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

Among the Indo-European languages are English, German, Spanish, Italian, Russian, Hindi-Urdu and Persian. At the head of the family tree is the postulated language we call Proto-Indo-European, ...

The dead Indo-European sister languages left their ghostly mark, curiously, in a clutch of words for animals with big feet: Dutch pad (toad), Irish pata (hare), Welsh pathew (dormouse).

German and other West Germanic dialects ring in as the second most common non-English language spoken in Iowa homes, with almost 17,000 individuals. Close behind are Russian, Polish and other Slavic ...

There are about 7,000 languages spoken in the world today; they can be divided into about 140 families. Nevertheless, the languages most of us speak belong to just five: Indo-European, Sino ...

The British model provides a striking contrast. Since the 1996 Treasure Act, British law has required that significant archaeological finds be reported. Instead of simply seizing them, if the state ...