Wilton's Word & Phrase Origins (Popularity: )

Etymological site offers a brief history of the English language, discussion boards and a search ...

Tracking Linguistic Drift: The Comparative Method (Popularity: )

Lecture notes.

Ancient Scripts - Historical Linguistics (Popularity: )

Introduction to historical linguistics with language family charts and extensive links list.

Indin (Popularity: )

Independent investigations into the history of the Indo-European languages and peoples (by Valentyn Stetsyuk). Includes ...

Pre-Nostratic Pronouns (Popularity: )

by Patrick C. Ryan, Mother Tongue 11, September 1990.

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William Calvin and Derek Bickerton offer three ways for getting from ape behaviors to syntax. ...

Introduction to Historical Linguistics (Popularity: )

A brief summary of the subject of comparative linguistics.

TheTower of Babel (Popularity: )

A project that aims at tracing the origin of the world's current 6,000 languages to ...

Linguae Thraco-Daco-Moesianae (Popularity: )

Philological Thracology. A Traco-Dacian Thesaurus, a few articles and links.

Was Nostratic A Real Language? (Popularity: )

On the family tree of languages, no one is quite sure whether Nostratic is a ...

Linguists Debating Deepest Roots of Language (Popularity: )

The debate on Nostratic- the "Mother Tongue." The New York Times, June 27, 1995.

NOVA Online-Transcripts-In Search of the First Language (Popularity: )

There are surprising similarities among the languages of the world. Could it be that at ...

The Extended Mind: Understanding Language and Thought in Terms of Complexity and Chaos Theory (Popularity: )

Robert K. Logan, Professor of Physics, argues that the origins of speech and the human ...

Place Names and Intersocietal Interaction (Popularity: )

The relation of place names to inter-tribal relations.

Relations between Indoeuropean and Afroasiatic Languages (Popularity: )

Traces of possible relations between Indoeuropean and Afroasiatic languages.

Cameron Laird's Personal Index to Anthropologic Resources on the Net (Popularity: )

Two software applications to aid glottochronological & lexostatistical analysis.