A recent social media claim that Albanian is the oldest Indo-European language still in use has been debunked as ...

How a Scientific Revolution is Rewriting Their Story is its starting point, specifically, determining where it was. He hopes ...

Genetic research traced the ancestral homeland of Uralic people, whose descendants live in Russia, Hungary, Finland and ...

It’s really gratifying to see that a book on a subject that some may find obscure is getting a lot of attention from writers ...

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 ...

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.

We know this word came from Celtic because, of the three branches, only Celtic converted the ē in Proto-Indo-European h3rēg’s to an ī (the Italic branch kept the ē, as in Latin rēx).

The Indo-European family is the largest, especially when counting second-language speakers. It spans 12 branches with historic roots stretching from northwestern China to Western Europe. According to ...

Proto: How One Ancient Language Went Global Laura Spinney. Bloomsbury, $29.99 (336p) ISBN 978-1-63973-258-6 ...

Tamil Nadu CM M.K. Stalin releases first volume of Tamil-Indo-European etymological dictionary, part of 12-volume project with Oxford University Press.

And no one seems concerned that the Russian word kurgan, which has played an outsize role in Indo-European studies for generations, came to Slavic from a Turkic—i.e., non-Indo-European—language. Even ...

And no one seems concerned that the Russian word kurgan, which has played an outsize role in Indo-European studies for generations, came to Slavic from a Turkic—i.e., non-Indo-European—language.