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 ...

That is the leading explanation today for how the majority of Europeans came to speak the languages they do ... dialect clusters share the label “Indo-European” because, by the time linguists ...

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 ...

In ancient India, the most powerful god was known as “sky father,” or in the Sanskrit language, Dyaus pita. Sound it out. Can you see where this is going? In Greece, his equivalent was Zeus ...

Languages other than Spanish and English are spoken in about 12.3% of Connecticut households, slightly more than 174,600.

Over the past 500 million years, nearly all evolutionary changes in octopuses and squids occurred in rapid bursts during the emergence of new species ...

These loans, which are still in use today, are older than the Indo-European languages they enrich, since the farmers brought them to Europe thousands of years earlier, from the Near East (many may ...

German and other West Germanic dialects ring in as the second most common non-English language spoken in Iowa homes, with ...

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 ...