With over 7,100 languages spoken across our planet, it can be hard to imagine a world in which written and spoken language didn’t exist. We use it for everything: from ordering takeout to speaking to ...

There are almost 7,000 languages in the world. Languages are constantly growing and evolving, dying off, merging, and expanding. But who was the first person to say “hello”? How did our ancestors ...

Human language and communication skills are unique in the animal kingdom. How they developed in the course of evolution is being researched, among other things, using the alarm call system of vervet ...

In the 2016 film Arrival, a linguist must figure out how to communicate with enormous seven-limbed aliens, starting with no shared language at all. Her first trembling, breathless attempt to bridge ...

Researchers recently investigated how the closely related West African green monkeys react to unknown sounds. Human language and communication skills are unique in the animal kingdom. How they ...