Oldest known words have survived 15,000 years. They include “mother”, “not” and “to spit”
These 23 words link modern and extinct languages. You would have been understood if you used them 15,000 years ago.
Tag: linguistics
A bilingual brain can help you filter out information efficiently
Filtering out languages seems to help you filter out useless information too.
Bubble physics can explain why dialects appear and how they evolve
It's a bubble-eats-bubble world out there.
What does gestural communication of great apes tell us about human language?
Our language is one of the features that define us as human beings and distance us from all other animals.
Koko’s compassion might show to the world that gorillas communicate
Just a while ago, I told you how researchers translated the chimpanzee gesture language. It was a real breakthrough, since ...
How we think before we speak
Photo: glowscotland.org.uk The common saying "think before you speak" is often used after a person spoke something inappropriate. It implies ...
Baby’s ability to interpret languages is innate, research shows
Despite having brains that are still "under construction", babies are able, even three months before full term, to distinguish between ...
Txting makes u stupid, study finds
A linguistic study found that people who regularly text message are less likely to accept new words, as opposed to ...
