While we’re losing biological diversity, we’re also losing linguistic and cultural diversity at the same time. This...
Linguistics
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?...
What is it to understand a language, hence others? By Dr. Paul TomassiFormer Professor of PhilosophyUniversity of...