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English Language Day highlights explicitly the history, evolution, and global impact of English, a language that connects millions of people across different countries and cultures. Origins of ...
How did language begin? Words don't leave artifacts behind — writing began long after language did — so theories of language origins have generally been based on hunches. For centuries there ...
Yet the origins of this family of tongues are mired in controversy. Some researchers hold that an early Indo-European language was spread by Middle Eastern farmers around 8,000–9,500 years ago ...
Despite numerous studies, many questions still remain as to the origin of Indo-European: where was the original Indo-European language spoken in prehistoric times? How long ago did this language ...