How did the language you are reading come to exist? The Indo-European family of languages covers most of Europe, the Iranian ...

Laura Spinney’s “Proto: How One Ancient Language Went Global” explores the roots of language and how it spread and changed across time and place.

Some important words, like “father” and “daughter” and the numbers two through five, survive in many languages. Scholars have constructed a vocabulary of Proto-Indo-European.

Filip Vezdin, a Croatian missionary and scholar, pioneered Sanskrit studies in Europe. His printed grammar, cultural analyses ...

Among the Indo-European languages are English, German, Spanish, Italian, Russian, Hindi-Urdu and Persian. At the head of the family tree is the postulated language we call Proto-Indo-European, or ...

Zeus is comparable to “sky god” archetypes that appear in other mythologies. Credit: Giovanni Lanfranco / CC BY-SA 4.0 / Wikimedia Commons The Proto-Indo-Europeans The Proto-Indo-Europeans were a ...

The Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visit marks a shift in New Delhi's relations with both Nicosia and Brussels, as Cyprus takes over the rotating presidency of the Council of the European ...

Languages other than Spanish and English are spoken in about 12.3% of Connecticut households, slightly more than 174,600. Indo-European languages include Italian, Portuguese and Hindi.

For the Indo-European languages, the research supported the so-called "hybrid theory," which posits that they originated south of the Caucasus Mountains before spreading northward.

John Phan shows how modern notions of language history are often hampered by nationalist narratives. John Phan is a language ...