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.

Genetic research traced the ancestral homeland of Uralic people, whose descendants live in Russia, Hungary, Finland and Etonia. But that's not the full story.

Christians hold that the eight survivors of The Great Flood (Noah and his wife, their three sons, and their wives) disembarked the Ark on Mount Ararat and then migrated to ...

There are about 7,000 languages spoken in the world today; they can be divided into about 140 families. Nevertheless, the languages most of us speak belong to just five: Indo-European, Sino ...

In the north of the country, a village that has been isolated from the outside world for centuries is suffering from the ...

The archipelago may not hold major strategic weight in the Indo-Pacific, but it offers a fascinating case study of ...

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.

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

Paetongtarn Shinawatra is accused of violating the constitution in a phone call with former Cambodian leader Hun Sen.

The European Union has committed €20 billion to building AI “gigafactories” across the continent, and Mistral’s partnership with Nvidia could help accelerate those plans.

The $3.1-billion bid made by the European satellite company for its rival will create a major European player to rival Elon Musk's Space X-owned Starlink.