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

Have you ever wondered how Australia's many Indigenous languages relate to one another and how far back the connections go? The Australian continent has been settled by Indigenous people for at least ...

A new model to predict how language changes over time has been developed by a statistical physicist at the University of Portsmouth. The model is a step towards understanding the "statistical physics ...

These include Catalan, Basque, Galician, Asturleonese, Aragonese and even a small area that speaks Occitan (France's southern dialect). Each of these languages has deep historical roots and reflects ...