A new linguistic study sheds light on the nature of languages spoken before the written period, using computational modeling to reconstruct the grammar of the 6500-7000 year-old Proto-Indo-European ...

Ancient languages hold a treasure trove of information about the culture, politics and commerce of millennia past. Yet, reconstructing them to reveal clues into human history can require decades of ...

Mark Harvey received funding from the Australian Research Council. Robert Mailhammer receives funding from the Australian Research Council. He is also a member of the Executive Committee of the ...