THE discovery of the Aryan family of languages, as elucidated in the paper printed in The Atlantic for February, was the first and most conspicuous consequence of the zeal for Sanskrit studies which ...

The study of articulatory phonetics has provided considerable insights into the complex biomechanical processes that underlie speech production. Research on Australian Indigenous languages, such as ...

The Indo-Aryan or Indic languages are the dominant language family of the northern Indian subcontinent. They constitute a branch of the Indo-Iranian languages, itself a branch of the Indo-European ...

Experts question methodology and say cultural influence is being mistaken for linguistic origin as scholars warn the ...

PERHAPS no conclusion of comparative philology has received such unanimous indorsement and been regarded as so incontestable as that which designates the tablelands of Central Asia as the cradle of ...

Writing on “Aryans and Non-Aryans,” Professor Franz Boas, perhaps the foremost living anthropologist, sets forth, in the current issue of The American Mercury, the reasons why there is no pure German ...

Making it to the top 5 on our list is Urdu. It is spoken as a second language by over 161 million people around the globe. Urdu belongs to the Indo-Aryan language family and is the official language ...