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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 ...
How a Scientific Revolution is Rewriting Their Story is its starting point, specifically, determining where it was. He hopes ...
As the debate over the origins of Indo-European languages continues, one thing is clear: The story is far more complex — and far more fascinating — than anyone imagined.
Uralic languages, which includes Finnish, Estonian and Hungarian, are distinctly different from Indo-European languages that ...
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 ...
Proto: How One Ancient Language Went Global By Laura Spinney William Collins (distributed in India by HarperCollins India), ...
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 ...
Both eastern and western dialect clusters share the label “Indo-European” because, by the time linguists noticed the family resemblance in the 18th century, they were spoken from Europe to the ...