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

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

Hunting the origin of 40 per cent of the languages spoken today is a huge feat, but Laura Spinney's new book makes an ...

A key human characteristic is our ability to communicate through complex languages — about 7,000 ... Jones speculated that the birthplace of Proto-Indo-European was probably in what is now ...

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 ...

Jones is also credited with the pioneering work on comparative linguistics as he was ... paving the way for the notion of a proto-Indo-European language that might have been the common ancestor ...

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