Linguists believe that a large portion of the world’s languages trace their roots back to one common ancestor: ...

A team of researchers is using a novel technique to comb through the data and to reconstruct major branches in the linguistic tree.

Linguistic Family Tree The work of linguists Will Chang, Chundra Cathcart, David Hall and Andrew Garrett has led to a breakthrough in knowledge about Indo-European languages.

In “Proto,” Laura Spinney details the centurieslong effort to reconstruct Proto-Indo-European (PIE), what linguists believe to be the mother tongue of a diverse constellation of languages from ...

“The Hittites were uniquely interested in recording rituals in foreign languages,” Daniel Schwemer, head of the Chair of Ancient Near Eastern Studies at Julius-Maximilians-Universität (JMU) Würzburg ...

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.

Instead, scholars believed that Proto-Indo-European was a language with a structure more similar to non-Indo-European languages of Eurasia such as Basque or languages of the Caucasus region.

Proto Indo-European is thought to be one of the precursor to languages as diverse as English and Hindi. Google Translate Languages are constantly evolving, spawning offshoots and mashups and cross ...

A family tree representing the transmission of "The Smith and the Devil" from Proto-Indo-European-speaking ancestors to modern language groups.

Half of All Languages Come From This One Root Tongue. Here’s How it Conquered the Earth. Today, three billion people speak Indo-European langauges ...