A study on Indo-European languages, using direct linguistic data, reconciles the two dominant hypotheses of where and how they immerged.

Proto Indo-European is thought to be one of the precursor to languages as diverse as English and Hindi. Google Translate Languages are constantly evolving, spawning offshoots and mashups and ...

A new linguistic study sheds light on the nature of languages spoken before the written period, using computational modeling to reconstruct the grammar of the 6500-7000 year-old Proto-Indo-European ...

What do Spanish, Hindi and English all have in common? They all descended from the same mother tongue: Anatolian, or more commonly Proto-Indo-European. In fact, there's about a 50 percent chance that ...

The debate has been whether European languages began south of the Black Sea or north of the Black Sea. The debate focused primarily on where the root of European languages originated. DNA sampling on ...

A team of researchers is using a novel technique to comb through the data and to reconstruct major branches in the linguistic tree. The diversity of human languages can be likened to branches on a ...

The Tower of Babel story is a fanciful attempt to account for a very real question: What was the first language and why are there now so many of them? The video below from TED Ed shows a brief history ...

THE Washington Post reports today that linguists have discovered a handful of "ultraconserved" words, some 15,000 years old. These are said to include "hand", "give", "bark" and "ash". The paper is ...

Ancient Europeans had a long tradition of oral storytelling before they had a written language, it turns out. Researchers from New University of Lisbon and Durham University have published new ...