A study on Indo-European languages, using direct linguistic data, reconciles the two dominant hypotheses of where and how ...

The diversity of human languages can be likened to branches on a tree. If you’re reading this in English, you’re on a branch that traces back to a common ancestor with Scots, which traces back to a ...

The 25-year-old creator of fictional, post-apocalyptic comic “Stand Still. Stay Silent” has created a visual tree grouping languages into different families – showing the relationships between them ...

Human languages are far more complex than any animal communication system we’re aware of, and yet young children can easily learn to master more than one language in an astonishingly short period of ...

Claire Bowern receives funding from the National Science Foundation and the Australian Research Council. She is Vice-President of the Endangered Language Fund. It is striking that English color words ...

The language-tree researchers assume isolated communities, continues MacEachern. This is not how groups normally behave, he says. There’s no reason why language, genes, and culture should evolve in ...