There is something odd about Proto-Germanic in comparison to other languages that come from the same source: Proto-Indo-European. The sounds are different, and sometimes the consonants too. […]
Proto-Indo-European became many subfamilies, one of which was Proto-Germanic which eventually gave rise to English. […]
What started as a college project in 2004 turned into an epoch-making point of history. Facebook heralded the rise of social media to democratize the flow of information and make it available to everyone. […]
Mandarin and Swahili are both intermediate languages, in that they have both been modified by interaction with speakers of other languages. […]
Tsez is a complex language that is spoken in a very small region high up in the Caucasus mountains. […]
Riau Indonesian has very little complexity in terms of grammar and structure. But how did it get this way? […]
A language might try to convey very small pieces of information through grammatical bits. Prefixes and suffixes are such bits. However, they did not start as prefixes and suffixes. They were whole words that conveyed the same meaning when Stage One of the language began. […]
It is believed that languages evolve as speakers of different languages meet, live together, and communicate. This is what happened to many languages around the world. However, there is a theory that debunks this idea completely.
Sometimes people get confused when they see diverse languages grouped together in one family. A language also evolves and over a period of time it begins to share common characteristics with other languages due to immigration, invasions, bilingualism and multilingualism. […]
Language bundles are groups of languages that look so similar that they are not expected to be from different families, while they are. Over the years, the languages in a bundle begin to look very different from their original family. […]
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