The major Indo-European language groups are Germanic, Italic, Celtic, Greek, Armenian, Albanian, Balto-Slavic, Indo-Iranian, and the extinct Tocharian and Anatolian branches.

Now, Tytarenko, a senior lector I and an associate research scholar in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures in Yale’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences, is building on that course to embed ...

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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.

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People may not know that Slovenian is a Slavic language." In other words, players hearing something Slavic often just guessed Russian, likely because the country is more talked and written about ...

Sheridan “Dan” Johns III, professor emeritus of political science, is remembered for his passion for equal rights, affinity for cultural exploration and generous character. Johns, 90, died May 1 in ...

They are both famous for introducing the Slavonic liturgy. In their work St. Cyril had to develop an alphabet for the Old Slavonic language. (It became the precursor of the Russian "cyrillic ...

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There are about 7,000 languages spoken in the world today; they can be divided into about 140 families. Nevertheless, the languages most of us speak belong to just five: Indo-European, Sino ...

Half of all 7,000-plus human languages may disappear over the next century, and—because many have never been recorded—when they’re gone, it will be forever. Ross Perlin, a lecturer in Columbia’s ...

T he Slavic countries, spanning Eastern Europe and parts of Central Europe, share a rich tapestry of linguistic, cultural, and historical elements that connect them. Despite their common roots, these ...