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Indo-European Languages: New Study Reconciles Two Dominant Hypotheses About Their Origin
The Conversation en Español via Yahoo News· 6 months agoThe Anatolian landscape in Turkey. lay london/Shutterstock The languages in the Indo-European family...
A new look at our linguistic roots
Knowable Magazine via Yahoo News· 2 months agoLinguists and archaeologists have argued for decades about where, and when, the first Indo-European languages were spoken, and what kind of lives those...
From 'dada' to Darth Vader – why the way we name fathers reminds us we spring from the same well
The Conversation via Yahoo News· 2 years agoEven supervillains need the odd day off. Katja Ogrin/Redferns via Getty ImagesMovie legend has it...
This Is How Long It Takes to Learn a Foreign Language, According to the U.S. Institute That Trains...
Travel+Leisure via Yahoo News· 7 months agoSpoiler alert: Swedish is considered one of the easiest languages for native English speakers....
Archaeologists Found an Entirely New Language Among the Ruins of an Ancient Empire
Popular Mechanics via AOL· 7 months agoIn the ruins of the archeological site at Turkey’s Boğazköy-Hattusha, archeologists uncovered a new...
Europe's oldest known village teetered on stilts over a Balkan lake 8,000 years ago
Live Science via Yahoo News· 8 months agoWe see a diver at the lake floor, where there are lots of wooden sticks in the ground....
Why Do Languages Have Gendered Words?
Newsy via AOL· 2 years agoJennifer Dorman is the head of User Insights at Babel. "Grammatical gender is a classification system for nouns," said Dorman. Today Dorman says 44% of languages have grammatical gender systems ...