A recent linguistic study jointly conducted by Dr. Svenja Bonmann from the Department of Linguistics at the University of ...

Ancient-genomics researchers have pinpointed the homelands of a nomadic tribe that transformed the culture and genetics of Europe and Asia ... the Indo-European language family, spoken by much ...

Southeast Asia, and the Pacific Islands – who speak languages from the Austronesian language family, one of the world’s largest. The Out of Taiwan theory suggests their homeland was Taiwan ...

Two new nonfiction books blend research and memoir to explore ideas of family, language and culture. Prisca Dorcas Mojica Rodríguez's Tías and Primas draws on her experience being raised in a ...

The common ancestor of Indo-European languages, which are now spoken by close to half the world’s population, was spoken in the eastern Mediterranean around 8000 years ago, according to an ...

Although the earliest written evidence of these languages dates back only around 3,000 years, Hieber says that both belong to the Afroasiatic language family ... of South Asia studies at the ...