There have been many theories that try to explain where language came from. None prevailed or even came close to the position of the Darwinism theory in biology or the Big Bang theory in physics.

New research reveals how human DNA preserves the story of language contact, showing when and where languages converged, ...

Throughout human history, there have been many instances where two populations came into contact—especially in the past few ...

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.

Researchers have used genetic, archaeological, and linguistic data to pinpoint the origin of an ancient language family in China that influences language today.

Humans are the only species on earth known to use language. They do this by combining sounds into words and words into sentences, creating infinite meanings. This process is based on linguistic rules ...

A study on Indo-European languages, using direct linguistic data, reconciles the two dominant hypotheses of where and how they immerged.

This discovery not only solves a centuries-old linguistic puzzle but also reveals how the CLV people’s descendants — the nomadic Yamnaya culture — carried their language across continents ...

New insights into the origin of the Indo-European languages Linguistics and genetics combine to suggest a new hybrid hypothesis for the origin of the Indo-European languages Date: July 28, 2023 ...

Informative, enlightening and insightful, "Linguistic Archaeology: An Introduction" awakens in readers the desire to question traditional pronouncements about the origin of major languages.

In the third study, a relationship was shown between the use of superordination in object definitions and the decline of nominal realism: children who displayed this level of categorization were also ...