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.

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.

The study has important implications not only for understanding the biology and evolution of language and how it is learned, but also for how language learning can be improved, both for people ...