A re you the kind of reader who knows your R1a from their R1b? Your Yamanaya from your Sintashta? Corded Ware from Bell-Beaker? Your Cucuteni-Trypillia from your Hurrians? A 'yes' at any point in this ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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.

“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 ...

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

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

Far Cry Primal is going to have a language that's actually based in reality featured in-game. Proto-European linguists helped develop it.