Language trees are useful for depicting relationships of communities in the past 5,000 to 10,000 years or so, a period too short to be resolved by genetics–and exactly the time for which ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — It was a day of smiles and fun as friends and families of participants gathered for the GRACE ...

In the 5½ years since the conflict began, many playwrights have weighed in on the Iraq war from military, political and ideological perspectives, but relatively few have focused on the home front.

When it comes to working out the relationships between ancient languages, grammar is more enlightening than vocabulary, scientists say. There are some 300 language families in the world today.

Biodiversity scientists are using a language tree to help guide efforts to preserve threatened languages, outlines a new report. One of the world's 7,000 languages vanishes every other week, and half ...

It has been a little over 30 years since tree body language became a guiding concept for me in my work, assessing tree health and structure. It was the 1994 publication of "The Body Language of Trees, ...

Indo-European languages range throughout Europe and South Asia and even into Iran, yet the roots of this widespread family of tongues have long been controversial. A new study adds support to the ...

In what is certainly the first such experiment in the country, and perhaps the world, the eminent linguist Ganesh Devy plans to set up a Global Language Park ( bhasha van in Hindi) in Pune. It will be ...