Better job prospects and richer lives are among the many reasons to learn a foreign language. Half...
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A linguist considers whether saving languages is sentimental or critical. I met the last speaker of Naati...
Ethnographer Daisy Bates recorded many Aboriginal languages in the early 20th century, which would otherwise be lost...
Linguists are using new technology to return decades-old recordings of near-extinct languages to the communities where they...
No one in history has ever, based on their adopting a sea-going profession, talked like Robert Newton’s...
While we’re losing biological diversity, we’re also losing linguistic and cultural diversity at the same time. This...
Webster saw himself as a saviour of the American language. In the United States, the name Noah...
Charting the evolution of Old English through the 700 years during which it was written and spoken....
Remaining examples include religious, mathematical, musical and astronomical texts. Key Points The principal languages of ancient Mesopotamia...
It takes about a millennium for dialects to become languages. Simple questions often yield complex answers. For...
Phoenician is a Canaanite language closely related to Hebrew. Introduction Very little is known about the Canaanite...
West Africa is a place of great diversity – in language, in writing, in the hugely varied...
Although brolly is British, bumbershoot is surprisingly American. Me: Hi English person: You mean you don’t have SNELLYDORF HUFFLEDAMS?...
Lawyers spoke their own language, even in the Middle Ages. When John of Salisbury (ca. 1115-1180) decried...
What is it to understand a language, hence others? By Dr. Paul TomassiFormer Professor of PhilosophyUniversity of...