The languages in the Indo-European family are spoken by almost half of the world’s population. This group includes a huge number of languages, ranging from English and Spanish to Russian, Kurdish and ...

Almost half of all people in the world today speak an Indo-European language, one whose origins go back thousands of years to a single mother tongue. Languages as different as English, Russian, ...

CHENNAI: Even Tamil teachers in the state might be taken aback if we told them that the origins of the English word ‘free’ could be traced to Tamil. While etymology links it to the Sanskrit root ‘pri’ ...

“If the Proto-Indo-Europeans had words for axles and wagons, it tells us something about when and where they lived,” he added. By reconstructing these words, researchers were able to find the presence ...

The debate has been whether European languages began south of the Black Sea or north of the Black Sea. The debate focused primarily on where the root of European languages originated. DNA sampling on ...

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But the preceding sets of words actually are related to one another. They are cognate, which means they share a common origin in descent from a single ancestral language. This now-extinct tongue was ...

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