Words change slowly over time, but we can see how they look mostly the same, even in different languages.

Now a team of researchers is claiming that some “ultraconservative words” have maintained their similarity across languages for 15,000 years. Is …

Linguists have always been interested in reconstructing languages from long ago.

By looking at how languages are now, we can work backwards to see how they must have been in the past. But now computer scientists are creating a kind …