Origin of Languages

Towards Understanding the Origin of Genetic Languages

Towards Understanding the Origin of Genetic Languages ". .. four and twenty blackbirds baked in a pie. .. " Molecular biology is a nanotechnology that works—it has worked for billions of years and in an amazing variety of circumstances. At its core is a system for acquiring, processing and communicating information that is universal, from viruses and bacteria to human beings. Advances in geneti...

Towards Understanding the Origin of Genetic Languages

Molecular biology is a nanotechnology that works—it has worked for billions of years and in an amazing variety of circumstances. At its core is a system for acquiring, processing and communicating information that is universal, from viruses and bacteria to human beings. Advances in genetics and experience in designing computers have taken us to a stage where we can understand the optimisation p...

Bayesian phylogenetic analysis supports an agricultural origin of Japonic languages.

Languages, like genes, evolve by a process of descent with modification. This striking similarity between biological and linguistic evolution allows us to apply phylogenetic methods to explore how languages, as well as the people who speak them, are related to one another through evolutionary history. Language phylogenies constructed with lexical data have so far revealed population expansions ...

Annotating Cognates and Etymological Origin in Turkic Languages

Turkic languages exhibit extensive and diverse etymological relationships among lexical items. These relationships make the Turkic languages promising for exploring automated translation lexicon induction by leveraging cognate and other etymological information. However, due to the extent and diversity of the types of relationships between words, it is not clear how to annotate such information...

Iranian Languages as Gardens