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

The first true alphabet was an invention of the Greek world, revolutionizing writing, literacy, and shaping foundations of ...

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 ...

Only then did he know that he had the right to go on. In the Old Slavic language, there was one and the same word for “smithery” and “art.” The proto-Ukrainians believed that a blacksmith could forge ...

Yet their legacy persists, hidden within the words of the languages spoken by more than three billion people today. In “Proto,” Laura Spinney details the centurieslong effort to reconstruct ...

and of Slavic Literature. Deeply rooted in the national consciousness, this day is more than a commemoration; it is a celebration of identity, history, and the enduring power of language and ...

"Romanian is actually a romance language, so it's correlated to Latin and Italian," she explained. "While Bulgarian is a Slavic language, so it's more related to Russian and Ukrainian and Slovenian." ...

The long chain of verbal prefixes which is common in the Old Irish glosses is a phenomenon which has parallels in Slavic. The normal order of Old Irish prefixes is known. Violations of that order can ...