linguistics

International linguistic scholars estimate that without intervention, about one language will be lost every month for the next 40 years, with indigenous languages in northeast South America, Alaska to Oregon, ...

Is English “weird”? Many of us might feel this is true when we’re trying to explain the complex spelling rules ...

Have you ever worried in your student years or later in life that time may be starting to ...

New evidence supports Noam Chomsky’s decades-old theory that we have internal grammar that helps us process language, even ...

It is one of the last strongholds of an ancient tongue that preserves much of Old Norse, the ...

Some languages have nothing in common with other known languages, their origins shrouded in mystery. Some of these ...

The idea that Native Americans are descended from ancient Jews, Egyptians, or Greeks has been a controversial one ...

I downloaded a new keyboard onto my phone yesterday and was pleasantly surprised to see it suggesting the ...

Word choice in online restaurant reviews reveals a lot about people’s inner worlds, according to new research. The ...

You can turn an egg into an omelet, but you can’t turn an omelet into an egg. Take ...