LAST February, amid the fjords of southern Chile, an elderly woman died – and a language fell silent. Cristina CalderÓn, a much-loved 93-year-old, was the last known native speaker of Yaghan, which ...

The lovey-dovey ways that you speak to your partner in private can have surprising benefits for your relationship—despite how embarrassing they can be. Language is born out of need—the need to ...

The late UCLA professor Peter Ladefoged was the Indiana Jones of spoken language. For almost 50 years, the phonetics researcher traveled the globe with recording equipment, in search of obscure and ...

Language is born out of need—the need to communicate, the need to connect. Across the world, languages have emerged from these basic human instincts. Each may have its own history, but they all share ...

Imagine a world where machines not only solve problems but also create their own secret ways of communicating—languages that humans can’t fully understand. It sounds like the plot of a sci-fi movie, ...

MARKSVILLE, La. (KALB) - In honor of International Mother Language Day, the Tunica-Biloxi Tribe of Louisiana is celebrating ...