Triangulations blogger Sabio Lantz recently put together this rather clever diagram showing how the English language has evolved over the past 3,000 years. And yes, though it first emerged as a ...

If correct, we can expect human languages to form into family trees, known as phylogenies, which chart the history of their evolution in a manner analogous to that for biological species.

Psychologists at the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Memphis have released a new study on linguistic evolution that challenges the prominent hypothesis for why languages differ ...

The literal “diagram” comes from the Latin ... With time, the former definition became more prominent—an evolution that can be found in many languages, such as Modern Greek.