For decades, the leading theory for the ubiquity of Indo–European languages was that early farmers, living in a region known ...

Joshua Bell, a curator at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of Natural History, says that many people still ...

We explore all periods of the history of the English language, from Old English to the present day, and examine the development and use of varieties of spoken and written English, both globally and ...

Where lies the origin of the Indo-European language family? Ron Pinhasi and his team in the Department of Evolutionary ...

The mid-19th century was a turbulent period in Welsh history. Popular risings and riots ... reason was the continued existence of the Welsh language. After a speech in 1846 by William Williams ...

This study identified a missing link in this rich and complex history of language. Much of the study of Indo-European languages focuses on what’s called steppe ancestry. But what exactly is that?

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 ...