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I know that the subject has been widely debated here, but could someone summarize in a few words, and without the interference of politic considerations, what is the typology of Albanian and its relation with the Illyrian languages ? No tricky question here, I'm not an expert of this matter.

Well, let's be clear right from the begining, I won't propose nor defend any theory about the origins of the Etruscans and the Germans based on daring speculations about their haplogroups. I just happened to be reading Bonfante's "The Etruscan Language" earlier today, and noticed a few...

Here is a little etymological riddle about English "track" and French "trace". The meaning of both words is originally "track of an animal", and by extension the way indicated by these tracks. Here are the facts: About track the OED tells us that it originates in Old French trac (same meaning)...

I've been wondering lately about the origins of 2 strange features, both relatively typical to western IE languages (not only though, I'll say a word about that later) : the compound tenses and the definite article. Let's begin with the article : you find it in Celtic, in Germanic, in Romance...

Here is a quote from a text I read on the eupedia webpage devoted to genetics : The Indo-Europeans' bronze weapons and horses would have given them a tremendous advantage over the autochthonous inhabitants of Europe, namely the native haplogroup I (descendant of Cro-Magnon), and the early...