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New insights into origins of the world’s languages
Linguists have long agreed that languages from English to Greek to Hindi, known as ‘Indo-European languages’, are the modern descendants of a language family that first emerged from a common ancestor...
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The rapid rise of human language
“The hierarchical complexity found in present-day language is likely to have been present in human language since its emergence,” says Shigeru Miyagawa, Professor of Linguistics and the Kochi...
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Reviving the Iban alphabet
A Malaysian indigenous group has revived its alphabet from the brink of extinction, thanks to specially designed computer fonts. The Iban alphabet was invented in 1947.Credit: Copyright Universiti...
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The forgotten knowledge of the Mediterranean Sea during the era of National...
“An astounding knowledge gap” is how historian Christine Isabel Schröder from the Ruhr-Universität Bochum refers to the missing knowledge regarding the Mediterranean region in the years 1933 to 1945....
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New research on Austronesian languages refute longstanding theory
Austronesian languages expansion map. Periods are based on archeological studies, though the association of the archeological record and linguistic reconstructions is disputed. Based on the Atlas...
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