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The Indo-European family of languages is the largest in the world, with over 150 languages and 3 billion speakers today. The language group is also home to dozens of extinct languages that paved the ...

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In this interview, Laura Spinney discusses how Proto-Indo-European spread through migration, social change, and population ...

Every boring email we type or moment of small talk we have at the grocery store is part of a historic and mysterious legacy: the creation of language. The kind of languages we speak — from Arabic to ...

Painstaking archaeological exploration is a familiar, often widely admired, method of unearthing history. Less celebrated, but also invaluable, is the piecing together of fragments of ancient ...

Ancient genomes solve the Etruscan paradox, showing how genes shifted for centuries while their language stayed unchanged.

A groundbreaking announcement for the recovery of lost ancient literature was recently made. Using a non-invasive method that harnesses machine learning, an international trio of scholars retrieved 15 ...

A sign of our past? Deaf experimental psychologist Rain Bosworth has found that babies have an intrinsic ability to recognize sign language, Meghan Rosen reported in “Primed to sign” (SN: 4/26/24).