Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Saturday India is the most ancient living civilisation of the world due to the immortal ...

In the digital age, Kashmiri is progressively neglected. Although languages such as Hindi and Tamil flourish online, Kashmiri suffers from a deficiency in visibility, digital resources, and content.

Although often associated with Southern India, the Dravidian language family includes 27 languages, spoken by 220 million people across South Asia and beyond. This is a story on the North Dravidian la ...

Last week, veteran actor Kamal Haasan courted controversy by declaring that “Kannada was born out of Tamil.” The question of which Indian language is oldest—and, by extension, most native to the ...

Hindi comes from the Indo-Aryan language family while Tamil comes from a distinct and separate Dravidian family. Tamil Nadu’s neighbouring states also speak chief Dravidian languages like Telugu ...

After Independence, the Central government’s push to replace English with Hindi as the national language revived old tensions. By 1965, Tamil Nadu’s opposition had reached a breaking point.

“White supremacists have grabbed onto it and continue to run old Nazi propaganda lines about Indo-European languages,” he said, noting that the word “Aryan” comes from an Indo-European word.

The languages must have “sprung from some common source,” he wrote. Later generations of linguists determined that Sanskrit and Latin belong to a huge family of so-called Indo-European languages.

Since William Jones’ 1786 proposition that Sanskrit, Persian and European languages had a common ancestor, the broad consensus among linguists was that the Aryans (Indo-Europeans) were speakers ...

Theories link the script to early Brahmi scripts, Indo-Aryan languages and Sumerian. Decyphering the script would allow researchers to gain further knowledge on governance and beliefs.

6. Basque Unlike most languages, Basque is a linguistic isolate, meaning it has no known relatives. Believed to predate Indo-European languages, Basque is still spoken in an area of 10,000 square ...

Following the discovery of a common root to the Sanskrit, Persian, Greek, and Latin languages in the late 18th century, a theory developed about a race of Aryan (Indo-European)-speaking people who ...