English, with about a third of its words rooted in French, is a prime example of how language transforms based on society.

Genetic evidence from Iron Age Britain shows that women tended to stay within their ancestral communities, suggesting that social networks revolved around women ...

Where lies the origin of the Indo-European language family? Ron Pinhasi and his team in the Department of Evolutionary ...

These include Welsh, Irish, Scottish Gaelic, Cornish and Breton; all other Celtic languages have died out. Greek and Roman authors describe Celtic tribes as speaking in mysterious, riddling ways ...

Those population movements may have brought Celtic languages to the British Isles. Social structures can vary in present-day matrilocal societies, Cassidy says. Men sometimes dominate formal ...

A new study reveals fresh clues about Indo-European language origins, tracing an ancestral group's key role in their spread.

Female family ties were at the heart of social networks in Celtic society in Britain before the Roman invasion, a new analysis suggests.

This will add more fuel to debates surrounding the arrival of Celtic language in Britain. Dr Cassidy explained: “Migration into Britain during the later Bronze Age has previously been detected ...

For instance, Celtic women were sometimes buried with ... researchers said. Revived Indigenous Language Gives Fossil Its Name: After scientists found an extinct burrowing amphibian on Eastern ...

The authors speculate that incoming people in the Late Iron Age might have introduced their languages, post-dating the current hypothesis that Celtic languages were brought to southern Britain ...

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