Did you know that most of the different languages we speak today can actually be placed in only a couple of groups by their ...

A pair of landmark studies, published Wednesday in the journal Nature, has finally identified the originators of the Indo-European family of 400-plus languages, spoken today by more than 40% of ...

Large language models (LLMs) landed on Europe’s digital sovereignty agenda with a bang last week, as news emerged of a new program to develop a series of “truly” open source LLMs covering ...

Anatolian languages, including Hittite, are the oldest branch of the Indo-European tongues to split away, uniquely preserving some of the linguistic archaisms lost in all other branches. This ...

Indo-European languages (IE), which number over 400 and include major groups such as Germanic, Romance, Slavic, Indo-Iranian, and Celtic, are spoken by nearly half the world's population today.

The Bachelor of Arts in European Languages, Literature and Film Studies curriculum builds upon existing UW language minors and established humanities coursework in French, German, and Spanish. To ...

“We hypothesized some deeper population was the ultimate source of Indo-European languages.” But not all experts are convinced that genetic data alone can pinpoint the origins of a language.

A new study claims to have identified the first speakers of Indo-European language, which gave rise to English, Sanskrit and hundreds of others. By Carl Zimmer In 1786, a British judge named ...