New research reveals how human DNA preserves the story of language contact, showing when and where languages converged, ...

Throughout human history, there have been many instances where two populations came into contact—especially in the past few ...

Rearing our unusually underdeveloped young may account for the evolution of language. Michael Marshall is intrigued, but ...

Language has long been considered a uniquely human trait, with features that mark it out as distinct from the communication of all other species. However, research published in Science has ...

The way that human adults talk to young children is unique among primates, a new study found. That might be one secret to our species’ grasp of language. By Carl Zimmer If you’ve ever cooed at a baby, ...

The researchers discovered that even long-extinct close human relatives such as Neanderthals—who likely had the anatomical features for speech and carried a variant of another language-linked ...

There Might Be Something Human in the Way Bonobos Communicate—Their Calls Share a Key Trait With Our Language, Study Suggests Researchers attempted to decode bonobo calls by recording their ...

Ben Yehuda portrait Eliezer Ben Yehuda (1858-1922), the “Father of the Modern Hebrew Language,” is best known for one of the truly great socio-linguistic events in world history: his virtually ...

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