Introduction Ancient Africa has the world’s oldest and largest collection of ancient writing systems, and is home...
Language
Linguists believe Black English might have originated from West African or Creole languages. What brought you to...
Indigenous language instructors struggle to keep their languages from becoming lost. Introduction Whenever November would roll around,...
Jean-François Champollion’s obsession with hieroglyphs began around 1801. A Forgotten Script Hieroglyphs dominated the landscape of the...
The ancient Celtic languages were spoken across Europe and Anatolia (modern Turkey). Introduction The Celtic languages form a branch...
A language scientist explains that talking was never invented but has evolved over hundreds of thousands of...
Created in Europe during a time of intercultural struggle and strife, it was created as a tool...
Are you going on a trip and want to learn Portuguese with a tutor? It is hard...
The first forms of recorded expression are thought to be those that co‐evolved with technology some 20,000–30,000...
Despite some meaningful differences from Classical Latin, Medieval writers did not regard it fundamentally different. Introduction Medieval...
Inka khipus are bundles of woolen cords tied together with knots added to them to encode information....
Abstract Understanding the evolution of language requires evidence regarding origins and processes that led to change. In...
Putin uses a practice diagnosed by political author George Orwell as ‘doublespeak,’ or the language of totalitarians....
NuqneH! Saluton! A linguistic anthropologist studies the people who invent new tongues. Most languages develop through centuries...
Russian nationalists long sought to classify Ukrainian as a dialect of Russian, refusing to see a separate...
Cultures around the world say ‘thank you’ in many different ways. Introduction Families and friends traditionally gather...
In the cheeps, trills, and tweets of birdsong, scientists find some parallels with human speech. Introduction In...
Inscriptions are the closest things we have to authentic, first-hand reports from the past. But they can...
There are many ways you could improve your speaking and writing skills but you need to be...
Languages, like genes, are also ‘documents of history’. Abstract Historical inference is at its most powerful when...
The public is finally realizing what antifascists have warned for years: these symbols are rooted in American...
Ancient epic poetry and modern films share an affinity for dressing up brutal deaths with rhetorical flair....
Old symbols, gestures and other images are rapidly acquiring new, hateful associations. The “OK” hand gesture, commonly...
After the Norman invasion of 1066, English went into decline as a written language. English is full...
As political parties spar, insults and catchphrases are adopted, appropriated, and reappropriated in a dizzying verbal arms...
Englishman Samuel Johnson’s work helped define the English language for readers on both sides of the Atlantic....
A proto-language is a linguistic reconstruction formulated by applying the comparative method to a group of languages...
As of the 2000s, a total of roughly 7,000 natively spoken languages existed worldwide. Curated/Reviewed by Matthew...
Research into the development of human language. By Matt Phillips Introduction Picture a human being before the...
The inscription hence records the construction of the tunnel in ancient Jerusalem. Introduction The Siloam inscription or Shiloah inscripti, known...