The fossilised bones of our ancestors remain silent. So, how can we possibly imagine what our earliest languages sounded like ...

Detail view of Pages by Michele Oka Doner at Wasserman Projects (all photos by the author unless otherwise noted) “I’ve always had a sense, from the time I saw hieroglyphics, that they were connected ...

An international team proposes replacing Hockett’s feature checklist with a model of language as a dynamic, multimodal, and socially evolving system.

Editor's Note: This article was originally published at ScienceNordic. In Italy they speak Italian. In Germany they speak German, and in Denmark, Danish. If this was true for all other countries, ...