When you’re an English speaker learning French, one of the best surprises is how many words are cognates—words that look and sound similar in both English and French, and have the same meaning. A few ...

Mangaluru: At a time when there are serious and passionate attempts to secure recognition for Tulu in the Eighth Schedule of the Constitution, works relating to the linguistic features of the language ...

Michael Dunn is an evolutionary linguist working with computational phylogenetic methods. He has coauthored with Quentin Atkinson, and has published papers using methods developed by Mark Pagel and ...

Professor Bhadriraju Krishnamurti, a scholar and gentleman, and former Vice Chancellor of the University of Hyderabad, breathed his last a fortnight ago. His demise marks the end of an era in the ...

Plants and animals aren't the only things that go extinct: Most words are replaced every few thousand years, with a maximum survival of roughly 9,000 years, say linguists. But in a new study published ...