Explore the Indo-European languages origin and the Anatolian hypothesis in this groundbreaking research paper. Dr. Anthony, noting that neither he nor Dr. Atkinson is a linguist, said that cognates ...

The Indo-Aryan or Indic languages are the dominant language family of the northern Indian subcontinent. They constitute a branch of the Indo-Iranian languages, itself a branch of the Indo-European ...

In 1786, an English judge then resident in Calcutta, Sir William Jones delivered a speech to the members of the "Asiatick Society", an institution that had been founded by him and a few other ...

The study of articulatory phonetics has provided considerable insights into the complex biomechanical processes that underlie speech production. Research on Australian Indigenous languages, such as ...

Swāt valley, located in the Khyber Pukhtunkhwa (KPK) province of the northern part of Pakistan, was known since the antiquity with the names of Uḍḍyāna (‘the garden’) and Suvāstu (‘the place of fine ...

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 ...

The research contributes to a long-standing debate about whether Indo-European languages, including Sanskrit, were brought to the subcontinent by outsiders, sometimes referred to as ‘Aryans,’ or ...