The University of Southern California’s April announcement of its plans to close its German department has sparked a discussion within American higher education about the future role of the ...

As part of a special issue on European identities, Ned Thomas reviews the status of “minority languages” in Europe. Mr. Thomas, who directs a program at the University of Wales that supports research ...

Benjamin holds a Master's degree in anthropology from University College London and has previously worked in the fields of psychedelic neuroscience and mental health. Benjamin holds a Master's degree ...

Almost half of all people in the world today speak an Indo-European language, one whose origins go back thousands of years to a single mother tongue. Languages as different as English, Russian, ...

Photo of Remontnoye (3766–3637 calBCE), with a spiral temple ring. Credit: Natalia Shishlina (co-author of "The Genetic Origin of the Indo-Europeans") Photo of Remontnoye (3766–3637 calBCE), with a ...

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 the ...

A mysterious group of humans from the east stormed western Europe 4,500 years ago — bringing with them technologies such as the wheel, as well as a language that is the forebear of many modern tongues ...

An curved arrow pointing right. The origin of Indo-European languages has long been a topic of debate among scholars and scientists. In 2012, a team of evolutionary biologists at the University of ...

More than 20 European languages face digital extinction because of a lack of technological support, a study by Europe's leading language technology experts has found. More than 20 European languages ...

A new study warns that less-common languages are in danger of disappearing from the Internet. Tongues including Icelandic, Latvian, Lithuanian and Maltese simply have too few speakers to gain a ...

Types of Language Families: Language is the core tool humans use to share ideas, emotions, and culture. Linguists group individual languages into “families” based on shared ancestry, similar to a ...