Language trees are useful for depicting relationships of communities in the past 5,000 to 10,000 years or so, a period too short to be resolved by genetics–and exactly the time for which ...

When it comes to working out the relationships between ancient languages, grammar is more enlightening than vocabulary, scientists say. There are some 300 language families in the world today.

Indo-European languages range throughout Europe and South Asia and even into Iran, yet the roots of this widespread family of tongues have long been controversial. A new study adds support to the ...

The more we learn about science and nature, the more interesting it becomes. While no other species has quite the same communication ability as humans, other species do communicate. Dogs use their ...

In what is certainly the first such experiment in the country, and perhaps the world, the eminent linguist Ganesh Devy plans to set up a Global Language Park ( bhasha van in Hindi) in Pune. It will be ...

In the 5½ years since the conflict began, many playwrights have weighed in on the Iraq war from military, political and ideological perspectives, but relatively few have focused on the home front.