This now-extinct tongue was probably spoken somewhere in Eurasia as many as 8,000 years ago. But how do we know ...

Ukraine and Russia are in the news for the wrong reasons—involved in a wasteful war, provoked by attempts to expand NATO borders. Ukraine has been made a pawn in the hands of western powers, the fate ...

I was fascinated to find, in going through the shelves of the library at home, some copies of the Ceylon University College Magazine, ranging in date from 1938 to 1941. I had thought when I first saw ...

Have you ever tried programming with a language that uses musical notation? What about a language that never runs programs the same way? What about a language where you write code with photographs?

Abstract: Punjabi, an Indo-Aryan language spoken by mil-lions, remains significantly underrepresented in the field of natural language processing (NLP). Despite its extensive speaker base, Punjabi has ...

Scholars from around the world and across disciplines will be gathering in New Delhi this week to present their work on the Harappan script at a conference hosted by the Union Ministry of Culture. The ...

Language wars in India might puzzle both philosophers and even a linguist from Mars. Linguist Noam Chomsky's thought experiment imagined such a Martian, who would see all human tongues as the same, ...

From September 11 to 13, 2025, the Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts (IGNCA) in New Delhi will host an international conference that aims to confront one of the greatest mysteries in ...

An Approach to Productive and Maintainable Shader Creation. Creating shaders has always been an advanced step for most developers; many game developers have never created GLSL code from scratch. The ...