Laura Spinney’s “Proto: How One Ancient Language Went Global” explores the roots of language and how it spread and changed across time and place.

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 ...

Across Europe, English-language editions are becoming increasingly popular, which affects the sales of local translated editions. One rights agent warns of “a massively dire state for foreign ...

Everything ever said on the internet was just the start of teaching artificial intelligence about humanity. Data-hungry tech companies are now tapping into an older repository of knowledge: ...

For nearly 40 years, daring smugglers transported nearly 40,000 Lithuanian-language books into the nation each year when it was forbidden under Russian rule. Following the gentle bends of the ...

There is some hubris in daring to define the key features of a century’s worth of novels, but Edwin Frank admits his book isn’t — and indeed can’t be — comprehensive.

While these derivative languages naturally changed over time and incorporated loan words and new features from other non-Indo-European languages, they also retained enough vocabulary and grammar ...

How did the language you are reading come to exist? The Indo-European family of languages covers most of Europe, the Iranian ...

Today is the 23rd anniversary of the European Day of Languages. First celebrated on 26 September 2001, the Council of Europe initiative highlights the importance of preserving linguistic diversity ...

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 ...

The annual European Day of Languages celebrates it. Go to navigation; ... In it, he quotes the 16th century humanist Catholic priest Mikalojus Daukša, who published the first books in Lithuanian.

More than 20 European languages face digital extinction because of a lack of technological support, a study by Europe’s leading language technology experts has found. Scientists from The University of ...