by Guillaume Jacques Speakers of European languages are all familiar with the concept of grammatical tense, which is marked in conjugation to show whether an action takes place before (past), during (present), or after...
by Melinda Fodor Prakrit is a kind of Cinderella among the classical languages of India. Initially a humble language of ordinary communication, it was considered a collection of “incorrect” dialects by the Sanskrit grammarians....
by Anne-Marie Turcan-Verkerk Did you happen to miss out on the “Legendary Beasts” exhibition at the Louvre-Lens, which ended on 22 January 2024? As a consolation, here are some specimens originating in Mediaeval Latin....
by Melinda Fodor Once upon a time, somewhere in northern East India, within an ancient Buddhist community, the first natural “Esperanto” language, Pali, emerged. Its development was certainly not the result of artificial, deliberate,...
by Alexandre François With about 500 languages, the Oceanic family spreads out across the vast Pacific Ocean. Three thousand years ago, its myriad islands and atolls began to be explored and settled by Austronesian...
