Modern English has diverged from the Germanic nature of Old English. It was a result of the Viking influence in England. While learning Old English, they introduced some changes to the language. […]
There is something odd about Proto-Germanic in comparison to other languages that come from the same source: Proto-Indo-European. The sounds are different, and sometimes the consonants too. […]
Proto-Indo-European became many subfamilies, one of which was Proto-Germanic which eventually gave rise to English. […]
What started as a college project in 2004 turned into an epoch-making point of history. Facebook heralded the rise of social media to democratize the flow of information and make it available to everyone. […]
Easy and ready access to information was once a stuff of dreams. Great visionaries cherished this desire until the right technology made this dream come true. From the libraries of Alexandria to the omnipresent Internet today, this vision has come a long way. […]
Mandarin and Swahili are both intermediate languages, in that they have both been modified by interaction with speakers of other languages. […]
Tsez is a complex language that is spoken in a very small region high up in the Caucasus mountains. […]
Riau Indonesian has very little complexity in terms of grammar and structure. But how did it get this way? […]
A language might try to convey very small pieces of information through grammatical bits. Prefixes and suffixes are such bits. However, they did not start as prefixes and suffixes. They were whole words that conveyed the same meaning when Stage One of the language began. […]
It is believed that languages evolve as speakers of different languages meet, live together, and communicate. This is what happened to many languages around the world. However, there is a theory that debunks this idea completely.
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