Linguistic controversy: could ultraconserved words point to deep language ancestry across Eurasia? Sharon Mollerus Looking at language in...
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Nisarg Desai observes wild chimps known as Sandi, Ferdinand and Siri in Tanzania. Michael Wilson, CC BY-ND Do chimpanzee talk to...
In the 19th century, federal policy shifted from a policy of extermination and displacement to assimilation. The...
Harvard instructor Sunn m’Cheaux worked with 30 Vassal Lane Upper School seventh-graders, teaching them the origin of...
A relief at the ancient Persian city of Persepolis (now in modern Iran), including inscriptions in cuneiform,...
What can a modern-day Creole language tell us about its first speakers in the 1600s? M M, ...
New linguistics facility applies scientific tenets to understanding how we communicate. By Jill Radsken / 02.21.2018 Dorothy...
Sainte-Cecile Cathedral overlooking the Tarn River, Albi, France. Midi- Pyrénées / Encyclopedia Britannica By Dr. Friedrich Edelmayer...
Edited by Matthew A. McIntosh / 02.15.2018 Historian Brewminate Editor-in-Chief 1 – Introduction to Language 1.2 –...
Wikimedia Commons By Dr. Joachim Whaley / 05.11.2015 Professor of German History and Thought University of Cambridge...
Mezzofanti as pictured in the frontispiece to The Life of Cardinal Mezzofanti; with an introductory memoir of eminent...
Johann Schleyer on a harp given to him as a 50th birthday present by his colleagues at Sionsharfe,...
MS Sanskrit gamma 194 / Wellcome Library Description Sanskrit is the oldest language known to man. It...
Ha! Photo by Getty Images By Dr. Thomas Hills (left) and Tomas Engelthaler (right) / 11.20.2017 Hills: ...
This khipu, which was made before the Spanish conquest of the Incas, was probably used for accounting, as...
Jamie Thomas, AB ’06, studies zombies, language, race and othering at Swarthmore College. Photo by Jennifer Weisbord...
‘You can never, in American public life, underestimate the advantages of complete and total incomprehensibility.’ Kissinger meets...
Everyone sees them all, but we don’t all give them the same distinct names. lazyllama/Shutterstock.com By Dr....
By Dr. Anne Reboul / 06.01.2017 Senior Researcher Institute for Cognitive Sciences-Marc Jeannerod It’s the late afternoon...
Eliezer Ben-Yehuda in 1905 / Wikimedia Commons By Dr. Lewis Glinert / 09.06.2017 Professor of Hebrew Studies...
The small city of Hazard, Kentucky, rests in the heart of Appalachia. AP Photo/David Stephenson By Dr. Kirk...
People currently speak 7,000 languages around the globe. Michael Gavin By Dr. Michael Gavin / 07.16.2017 Associate Professor...
Spock / Photo by Rex By Simson L. Garfinkel / 02.20.2017 My understanding of the word interesting came...
French Menu / Photo by Chris Cameron, Flickr, Creative Commons By Dr. Angela Grant / 10.28.2016 Horizon...
Image by futureatlas/Flickr By Dr. Angela Grant / 03.14.2017 Cognitive Psychology and Neuroscience Research Over the past few...
Salisbury House Library and Rare Documents Collection, Des Moines, IA By Dr. Charlie Huenemann / 05.30.2017 Professor...
Image from ACME Squares, Creative Commons By Dr. Carlos Gray Santana Assistant Professor of Philosophy University of...
A Pirahã family. / Photo by Caleb Everett By Dr. Caleb Everett / 04.25.2017 Andrew Carnegie Fellow...
Figure 1: P.Cairo 30961 recto. Photograph Ahmed Amin, Egyptian Museum, Cairo. By Dr. Stephen Kidd / 12.18.2013...
By Dr. Gregory Nagy / 03.13.2015 Francis Jones Professor of Classical Greek Literature Professor of Comparative Literature...