CHENNAI: Even Tamil teachers in the state might be taken aback if we told them that the origins of the English word ‘free’ ...

Before the coming of the Roman empire, Celtic languages were spoken across Europe. Present day placenames indicate the extent ...

Pontic Greek, which closely resembles Ancient Greek still lives on today, in communities near Turkey's Black Sea coast.

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 ...

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 Auckland led by Dr. Quentin ...

Babel, whose original derivation from the Hebrew name for Babylon dates even further back to Akkadian—an extinct East Semitic ...

The Indo-European Language The descendants of this forgotten tongue include English, Sanskrit and Greek. By comparing its "daughter languages" with one another, linguists have learned how it ...

Peoples speaking languages of the Indo-Iranian subgroup of the Indo-European language family probably entered Iran from the northeast early in the second millennium BCE. The indigenous inhabitants ...

When South Africa became a democracy in 1994, five of the country's universities used Afrikaans as a medium of instruction.