In the new study, Dunn and Gray's team created evolutionary trees for eight word-order features in humanity's best-described language groups -- Austronesian, Indo-European, Bantu and Uto-Aztecan.

Languages change and evolve in rapid bursts rather than in a steady pattern. New research investigates thousands of years of language evolution, and looks at the way in which languages split and ...

Winfred Lehmann in Historical Linguistics (1992) states: "The suggestion that the relationship between subgroups of a language is similar to that between branches of a tree was propounded by August ...

Tracing the evolution of English verbs over 1,200 years ... Fitch said, was a comprehensive "family tree" that showed how such modern languages as English, Russian, ...

Meanwhile, the documented influence of French sign language within the Western European language tree is backed up by France’s help in expanding Deaf education schools during the 18th century.

Language 'evolution' may shed light on human migration out-of-Beringia: Relationship between Siberian, North American languages. ScienceDaily . Retrieved June 2, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com ...

It may surprise you to learn that language is not just a tool for communication—it’s a living record of our evolution. Scientists believe that by studying the structure and development of ...

Walnut trees linked with development of language, trade routes "The factors that contribute to language being dispersed in Asia are the same as the way walnuts were dispersed," said researcher ...

A separate analysis of of 210 core vocabulary words in 400 Pacific-region languages produced an evolutionary tree of culture rather than organisms — and its branches followed with the migratory ...

Evolution of World's Second-largest Language Family Began 6,000 Years Ago Published Apr 24, 2019 at 1:10 PM EDT Chinese pictograph, calligraphy tablet of Huang Tingjia.