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

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

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 ...

“Indo-European languages are often seen as a distinct language group. With this treatise, we aim to demonstrate Tamil’s connection to the Proto-Indo-European (PIE) proto-language, showing how ...

President Trump has repeatedly called tariffs "the most beautiful word in the dictionary." NPR's Word of the Week explores ...

But Aleksic says the path it took is not actually that unusual. "Even words that were traced back to Old English eventually come from Proto-Indo-European," he explains. "So all language is imported, ...

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

They sound like a chorus of drawn-out rolled French r’s, like their French name, grue, and their English one, “crane,” from the Proto-Indo-European gerh, meaning to cry hoarsely. Some of the ...