These days, the first lesson of high school Latin is often to answer the question: why Latin? The language peaked in the era of Roman gladiators and slowly faded throughout the Middle Ages. Today, 800 ...

A knowledge of Latin is essential to understanding the original meaning of the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution: “A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, ...

Scientists have discovered that a language's grammatical structures change more quickly than vocabulary, overturning a long-held assumption in the field. The study analyzed 81 Austronesian languages ...