English speakers have always been used to tracing the etymologies of their words back to the classical languages of Europe, but the suggestion, in the late 18th century, that there were also clear and ...

History shows that linguistics evolve in unpredictable ways — and that the supremacy of English is not guaranteed.

Languages other than Spanish and English are spoken in about 12.3% of Connecticut households, slightly more than 174,600.

A pair of landmark studies, published Wednesday in the journal Nature, has finally identified the originators of the Indo-European family of 400-plus languages, spoken today by more than 40% of ...

Harvard researchers traced the origins of the vast Indo-European language family to the Caucasus-Lower Volga region, identifying the ancestral population that gave rise to more than 400 languages ...

A new study claims to have identified the first speakers of Indo-European language, which gave rise to English, Sanskrit and hundreds of others. By Carl Zimmer In 1786, a British judge named ...

Geralt via Wikimedia Commons under CC0 New research analyzing ancient DNA may have finally solved a long-standing linguistic mystery: Where did the Indo-European language family originate?

These language families, including Germanic, Indo-Iranian and Celtic, evolved from a common tongue called the Proto-Indo-European, whose origin has been a mystery. In the new study, researchers at ...

Indo-European languages (IE), which number over 400 and include major groups such as Germanic, Romance, Slavic, Indo-Iranian, and Celtic, are spoken by nearly half the world's population today ...

The British model provides a striking contrast. Since the 1996 Treasure Act, British law has required that significant ...

But the comparative method is emphatically not just about Indo-European: it works for all languages—unsurprisingly, its results are most impressive when ample material is available over time and ...