Google has taken on its fair share of ambitious projects — digitizing millions and millions of books, mapping the whole world, pioneering self-driving cars. It's a company that doesn't shy away from ...

Written and spoken language can exist separately in the brain, a new study from Johns Hopkins shows. The study looked at stroke victims with aphasia that impaired their communication capabilities in ...

Gonzalo Rubio spends his days reading dead languages that haven't been spoken for thousands of years. An assyriologist at Pennsylvania State University, Rubio studies the world's very first written ...

Andreea S. Calude receives funding from the Royal Society Marsden Grant and Catalyst Seeding Grant . University of Waikato provides funding as a member of The Conversation NZ. University of Waikato ...

Language is one of humanity’s most remarkable inventions, and it is one of the most enduring pillars of human civilisation, preserving the thoughts, beliefs and knowledge of ancient societies. Among ...

Minae Mizumura's The Fall of Language in the Age of English is an eye-opening call to consciousness about the role of language: what it means for the fate of national languages at a time when English ...

Few things in Chinese culture are more widely misunderstood outside of China than the Chinese language. The Chinese write very differently from us and indeed from all other literate societies in today ...