What is the oldest language in the world? Well, it depends. Scholars debate how to determine when a language began: when it was written, or spoken?

F. Deniz et al., “The representation of semantic information across human cerebral cortex during listening versus reading is invariant to stimulus modality,” J Neurosci, 39:7722–36, 2019. Researchers ...

Previous studies on the processing of sign language in the human brain had already found some similarities and also differences between sign languages and spoken languages.

Meet the man keeping the language of Latin alive Around 1,500 endangered and rare languages are at a high risk of being lost in the next century, according to a study of thousands of spoken languages.

Politics says something different For political scientists, the difference between a language and a dialect is not based on mutual understandability, but rather politics.

Language is one of the most powerful links between past and present, carrying culture, tradition, and history across centuries. While thousands of languages have disappeared, some have endured for ...