Linguistics News

Oct 29, 2012 by Sergio Prostak

A technology called the Reflectance Transformation Imaging (RTI) System for Ancient Documentary Artifacts has brought scientists closer to cracking the world’s oldest undeciphered writings. Tablet Sb06392: account of five fields and their yields, with total on reverse, and seal of the ruler(?) of Susa; excavated at Susa in the early 20th century; Louvre Museum, Paris (Image courtesy of Dr Jacob L. Dahl, University of Oxford) The proto-Elamite writing...

Sep 24, 2012 by News Staff

Dutch linguists have developed a new method using Bayesian phylogenetic approaches to analyze the evolution of structural features in more than 50 language...

Aug 24, 2012 by Sergio Prostak

An innovative computational approach applied by an international team of linguists sheds new light on the origins of Indo-European languages. Map shows...

Jun 19, 2012 by News Staff

A linguistics researcher at the Macquarie University in Australia has discovered that the language, known as Burushaski, which is spoken by about 90,000...

May 11, 2012 by Enrico de Lazaro

Archaeologists working in Turkey have found the evidence for a previously unknown ancient language which dates back more than 2,500 years, to the time...