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

North Germanic), which feed into specific languages (Swedish, Danish, Norwegian). Lessons on language families are often illustrated with a simple tree diagram that has all the information but ...

A team of researchers is using a novel technique to comb through the data and to reconstruct major branches in the linguistic tree ... branch that gave rise to Germanic; Celtic; Albanian; the ...

For reasons both poetic and pragmatic, the tree has historically been the ... artfully uses this format to trace the world's largest language families. All of the languages illustrated here ...

The Germanic branch developed into languages ... In essence, the computer program works by drawing a language tree and estimating the probability that it is correct given all the data and assumptions.

"This language would have been spoken by ... that Latin family is itself a branch of an even larger tree, whose other branches include Germanic, Slavic, Greek, Indic and others.

Instead, it is actually an example of Pennsylvania Dutch, a Germanic language that emerged in the 18th Century and is now mostly used by the Amish and Mennonite religious communities. Due to the ...