“The Hittites were uniquely interested in recording rituals in foreign languages,” Daniel Schwemer, head of the Chair of ...

Think the word ‘human’ was created by slapping ‘hu-’ on ‘man’? Think again: ‘Man’ and ‘human’ aren’t related at all.

The mysterious Harappan civilization is considered the third oldest in the ancient East after that of Egypt and Mesopotamia.

Linguists may not find it surprising as they think that these languages belong to the same family. Indeed, there is a family ...

Both major Tamil communities in Sri Lanka — the Jaffna Tamils (settled via medieval South Indian invasions) and Plantation ...

Where did Europe's distinct Uralic family of languages—which includes Hungarian, Finnish, and Estonian—come from? New research puts their origins a lot farther east than many thought.

What’s the difference between an insect and a bug? Who buzzes in the grass? And what does a ladybug have to do with a lady? Here we present the great encounter of etymology and entomology.

Arguably the leading English-speaking authority on the subject, over the last 50 years, he has published countless books and articles about the Indo-Europeans, the Proto-Indo-European language ...

Initially an innocent variant of “teats”, tits is at least a thousand years old and likely derives from the ancient Proto-Indo-European word tata. Tits were not profane until the early 20th century, ...

Another comment brought in a linguistic perspective: “One thing I find super cool is how similarities between Celtic languages and South Asian languages are how the concept of the proto-Indo-European ...