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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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.