Although today’s languages group into about 140 families, only 5 of these families are widely used: Indo-European, Sino-Tibetan, Niger–Congo, Afro-Asiatic and Austronesian.

Languages including Farsi are members of the globe-spanning Indo-European language family. Credit: Tina Manley/Alamy. Ancient-genomics researchers have pinpointed the homelands of a nomadic tribe ...

Imagine this: you pull your kids out of school for a year, stash your stuff in storage, rent out your house, put your career on pause and set out into the wide world, bound for all seven ...

In November of 2023, Doris (Beauchesne) Côté, her daughter Denise Beaudry, and granddaughter Samantha Moran shared their generational experiences of being Franco in Lowell at a panel discussion ...

Korean is among the world's most misunderstood and misrepresented languages because its origins are obscure and the subject of ongoing scholarly debate. Evidence suggests that Korean and Japanese ...

Tamil, spoken by 78 million people and recognised as an official language in Sri Lanka and Singapore, is one of the world's oldest languages. Part of the Dravidian family, which includes several ...

In Everett, students can pay $10 to take the World Language Assessment. In the testing room, it’s like the United Nations. EVERETT — When families gathered this month for a Latino heritage ...

It encodes 195 possible grammatical features for about 215 language families. ... As there are currently about 4,300 languages with published grammatical descriptions—out of about 7,000 known ...

The Indo-European language family is one of the most influential and widespread in human history. From the ancient civilizations of India and Greece to modern global languages like English and ...

Turkey's ban on the Kurdish language was lifted in 1991. Seventeen years later, state broadcaster TRT began a Kurdish TV channel, which some Kurds boycotted and criticised as government propaganda.

A linguistics analysis shows that language arrived in North America in multiple waves from Siberia. The Americas have half of the world’s linguistic diversity, despite a much shorter human history.