Proto-Indo-European gave birth to a plethora of modern languages, but there remains a question mark over its origins ...

To outsiders, India seems like a homogeneous monolith. Proof? Ask Indians how many times they have been questioned, "Do you speak Indian?" Far from this myth, India is home to hundreds of languages, ...

A new study claims to have identified the first speakers of Indo-European language, which gave rise to English, Sanskrit and hundreds of others. By Carl Zimmer In 1786, a British judge named William ...

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NEW DELHI: Amid the debate around Sanskrit being a suitable language for coding - with some even citing Nasa's supposed use of the ancient language - Delhi University has introduced a course that ...