Major branches in the tree of language reconstructed Date: September 10, 2021 Source: Santa Fe Institute Summary: A team of researchers is using a novel technique to comb through the data and to ...

An ancient source (say, Indo-European) has various branches (e.g., Romance, Germanic), which themselves have branches (West ... Lessons on language families are often illustrated with a simple ...

They used a previously established method for predicting the "reflexes" of related words – phonological changes in language that often preserve a trace of an older form – based on the constancy of ...

The origin of the Dravidian language family, consisting of about 80 varieties spoken by 220 million people across South Asia, can be dated to about 4,500 years ago, based on new linguistic analyses.

The researchers came to their conclusion after creating a language family ... Spanish) derive from Latin, which was spoken in Rome 2,000 years ago; that Latin family is itself a branch of an ...

The Dravidian language family, consisting of about 80 language varieties (both languages and dialects) is today spoken by about 220 million people, mostly in southern and central India but also in ...