NuqneH! Saluton! A linguistic anthropologist studies the people who invent new tongues. Most languages develop through centuries...
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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...
English sentence structure or grammar has been extraordinarily impacted by the ancient Greek and Latin models. By...
Western modern historical linguistics dates from the late-18th century. It grew out of the earlier discipline of...
English has been portrayed as the language of opportunity. It has more advantages than other languages in...
Writing is one of the activities that makes us humans so unique. For thousands of years, the...
This kind of dehumanization leads to violence. United States politicians are no strangers to using unkind language...
Writing is the most important invention because it makes all the other innovations possible. While researching a...
Etruscan was a relatively isolated language not connected with the Indo-European languages of Italy. By Mark CartwrightHistorian...
Deciphering Linear B, the earliest form of Greek, was a history-changing achievement, but decoding the older Linear...
The truth is that entering an intimate relationship with a new language often colors everything. Learning a...
Researchers say it’s time to finally discard a decades-old theory about the origins of human language. Introduction...
A linguist considers whether saving languages is sentimental or critical. I met the last speaker of Naati...
Harriot had the right temperament for his diplomatic role – he was open, curious, and notably non-judgmental....
At the very least, in order for spoken language to be a possibility, a species has to...