To hear what this land really sounds like, go to Hilo on the Big Island of Hawai‘i and Lac Courte Oreilles Ojibwe reservation ...

Most of us have no idea that our mother's influence on one of the most important things we’ll ever do—speaking—begins well ...

Many of the world’s languages are at risk of extinction. However, researchers are developing AI tools they hope can safeguard languages for future generations.

Wild chimpanzees alter the meaning of single calls when embedding them into diverse call combinations, mirroring linguistic operations in human language. Human language, however, allows an infinite ...

Humans are the only species on Earth known to use language. They do this by combining sounds into words and words into ...

Chimpanzees combine hoots, calls and grunts to convey far more concepts than with single sounds alone. It may be a first among nonhuman animals.

Inuit languages really do have many words for snow, linguists found—and other languages have conceptual specialties, too, ...

The future lies in approaching all languages with equal respect. We must rise above treating language diversity as a drawback ...

Another made up word is “gifted.” Too many people say, “I gifted…” Folks, the word “gift” is a noun. It is not a verb. You can give a gift; you can receive a gift, but “gifting someone something” is ...