Languages are like humans: they undergo and, in the past, have undergone evolution to evolve into the languages we know today. All languages--English, French, Arabic, Japanese--have undergone language evolution. Conversely, that means that modern languages have ancestors that existed many years ago. In most cases, multiple languages have the same common ancestor. One such common... Continue Reading →
Languages of the Ancient World!
For this installment of the "Languages of the World" series, we're doing something a little bit different. Normally, I focus on one single country and explore all the languages spoken there, but today, we're building a time machine and heading to a time period to explore all the languages spoken then. Welcome to ancient times!... Continue Reading →