Respect for the Russian language, the great culture created on its basis, and the people who speak it are very important for Russia, the Russian foreign minister said ...

Where do Dravidian languages come from?The term “Dravidian” today is often associated with India’s southern states, linked to ideas of ethnicity, culture and politics. Here I use it only in the ...

How One Ancient Language Went Global” explores the roots of language and how it spread and changed across time and place.

The explosion of Proto-Indo-European from its origins in Eastern Ukraine—the subject of science journalist Laura Spinney’s beguiling and revelatory new book, Proto: How One Ancient Language Went ...

Proto: How One Ancient Language Went Global. By Laura Spinney. Bloomsbury; 352 pages; $29.99. William Collins; £22 Dante did like a category. Famously, he split sinners into different circles in ...

The answer, in fact, sits above and across those words: Proto-Indo-European. This is the great original language from which English, among many other tongues, both alive and dead, derives.

Harvard’s programs for African Language, Slavic Languages & Literatures, and Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations are all slated to lose instructors in less commonly taught language programs ...

Slavic, Indo-Iranian, and Celtic languages. These languages derive from Proto-Indo-European (PIE), an ancestral language whose reconstruction has been the subject of study for generations. Although it ...

Slavic, Indo-Iranian, and Celtic, are spoken by nearly half the world's population today. Originating from the Proto-Indo-European (PIE) language, historians and linguists since the 19th century ...

These appeals have been filed mostly by Slavic right-wing and nationalist ... “Keep your hands off the (Albanian) language law, otherwise there will be no peace in the country,” Ahmeti added.

He was 88. In his four-decade career at UChicago, Aronson advocated for the study of Slavic languages and linguistics—and for the incorporation of indigenous and non-Slavic languages of the former ...

Proto-Indo-European speakers existed within preliterate social frameworks; thus, scholars specializing in comparative mythology have pieced together specifics through shared resemblances present among ...