Scholars have created a new global repository of linguistic data. The project is designed to facilitate new insights into the evolution of words and sounds of the languages spoken across the world ...

As the parent of two teenagers, being a linguist did not adequately prepare me for the strange things that sometimes come out of their mouths. For example, "like" is omnipresent, "hecka" punctuates ...

Historical, comparative and typological linguistics form the cornerstone of our understanding of language evolution, diversity and structure. Historical linguistics examines how individual languages ...

Researchers from Fudan, Harvard, and Stony Brook used AI and statistical methods to study the evolution of 22 languages, uncovering shared structural patterns in vocabulary change. The study found ...

Scientists from China have identified the existence of human-like speech pathways in the brains of marmoset monkeys, ...

The language of the Greeks is a living organism that has endured millennia. Credit: Thomas Wolf, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA ...

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Is it true that many languages in the world use words similar to “mama” and “papa” for “mother” and “father”? If a language uses only one word for both “arm” and “hand”, does it also use only one word ...