A team of researchers is using a novel technique to comb through the data and to reconstruct major branches in the linguistic tree. The diversity of human languages can be likened to branches on a ...

The diversity of human languages can be likened to branches on a tree. If you’re reading this in English, you’re on a branch that traces back to a common ancestor with Scots, which traces back to a ...

International Journal of American Linguistics, Vol. 72, No. 4 (October 2006), pp. 415-450 (36 pages) An unchallenged assumption regarding the linguistic history of the Ch’olan branch of the Mayan ...