The Indo-European language family tree (from Anthropology.net, originally from Scientific American, March 1990)
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Our first project, 99 Steps of Progress, is a serie of illustrations parodying the famous “March of Progress” (that drawing synthesizing 25 million years of human evolution). Surprising, funny or sarcastic, our artworks will be created on various supports (such as t-shirts, posters, canvas, stencils...) and one new illustration will be unveiled everyday during... 99 days !
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Matthew Cobb called my attention to this short article from io9 (he’s too lazy to post it himself), showing the history of the English language in graphic form. Triangulations blogger Sabio L…
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Amazing! The #evolution of global #alphabets. 🤓🤓 Linguistics is amazing! #LangChat #Linguistics
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Learn the captivating journey of Greek language evolution, as we unveil its history with Renaissance translations. 📜✨ #GreekLanguage #RenaissanceTranslations #LanguageHistory
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Free kindle book and epub digitized and proofread by Project Gutenberg.
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For an awfully long time, hominids lived in hunter-gatherer societies. This highly social way of living is thought to have evolved the origins of language, culminating in our species, Homo sapiens, coming to dominate all others. Was it our language that set us apart?
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The main divisions of the Indo-European Group. Many languages that we today find to be very different are in fact descended from the same original root language, English, along with many of the languages of Europe, parts of Asia, and India are descendants of the same common ancestor language spoken perhaps 7,000 to 9,000 years ago: Proto-Indo-European (PIE).
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The evolution of communication
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A new study challenges how we think about how humans acquired language. The study found no evidence that recent, human specific selection occurs for the FOXP2 gene in relation to language development
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Linguistics emerged with a natural curiosity to explore the formation and development of languages, how they are formed, the context they evolve in and the factors that impact their development. For those inclined towards studying languages and how they evolved over a long period of time, Linguistics is surely an intriguing discipline. This blog elucidates the scope of Linguistics, its varied branches, jobs you can explore as well as top universities offering academic programs in this field.
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History of writing
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Read a few lines of Chaucer or Shakespeare and you’ll get a sense of how the English language has changed during the past millennium. Linguists catalogue these changes and work to discern why they happened. Meanwhile, evolutionary biologists have been doing something similar with living things, exploring how and why certain genes have changed over generations.
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