Laura Spinney’s “Proto: How One Ancient Language Went Global” explores the roots of language and how it spread and changed across time and place.

Linguists and archaeologists have argued for decades about where and when the first Indo-European languages were spoken and what kind of lives those first speakers led ...

These language families, including Germanic, Indo-Iranian and Celtic, evolved from a common tongue called the Proto-Indo-European, whose origin has been a mystery.

3. Hindi Number of Total Speakers: 609.5 million Hindi is the third most-spoken language in the world in 2024. It belongs to the Indo-Iranian language family. It is India’s preferred official ...

And her later chapters, devoted to specific descendants of PIE, make for uneven reading: Some, like her chapter on Indo-Iranian languages, are rich in detail; others, like her section on Albanian ...

Multiple spoken languages Pakistan has around 73 and 76 actively spoken languages. So many districts don’t speak the same language. However, the most spoken languages are in the Indo-Iranian ...

German, Greek, Bulgarian and the Indo-Iranian language Domari are among a handful of Indo-European languages sometimes regarded as having no dominant word order (NDO).

The Iranians do not consider Indo-Persian worth reading, except perhaps Amir Khusrau Dehlavi and a select few Indian poets. They think (as they have for centuries) that it is derivative and ...

The recently discovered language remains largely incomprehensible, but researchers said it belongs to the Indo-European family.

Shina is part of the Dardic family of Indo-Iranian languages and is spoken widely in Gilgit-Baltistan and Kohistan areas of Pakistan.