Author Laura Spinney weighs in on the linguistic expansion of Indo-European languages thousands of years ago, examining the ...

Scholars believe a language used 5,000 years ago on the Asian steppe was the source of many of the world’s modern tongues.

D ante did like a category. Famously, he split sinners into different circles in Hell. Those who committed milder ...

KATHMANDU, May 6: Nepal is projected to become an aging society by 2111 BS, according to the 2021 national census. The census ...

Albanian is by far the most common language in Albania, with over 98% of the population able to speak and understand the ...

This week’s pick of interesting reads includes a courageous memoir that looks squarely at loss and death, the story of an ...

Proto-Indo-European (PIE), the language reconstructed by philologists and the common ancestor of IE languages, was itself a ...

Experts trace the rise of Indo-European languages as the largest family, from ancient migrations to modern dominance.

One of humanity's defining features is the ability to speak in complex languages. Today, nearly 7,000 languages are spoken worldwide and are grouped into about 140 families. The five largest language ...

IT is often said that the West’s academic interest in the East, its culture and languages was not driven by curiosity but the real motive behind the oriental studies was colonial designs and ...

Imagine being able to travel back thousands of years, not with a time machine, but through the words our ancestors spoke. It ...

Proto: How One Ancient Language Went Global by Laura Spinney is an exploration of how hundreds of languages share a single ...