The BBC reveals that English (and just about every other European language) descends from an ancestor that was not Russian, as was the popular belief, but Turkish… according to a … Read the rest “Our languages are Turkish. Virally so.”
Wired brings us another step closer to talking with the animals, thanks to research showing that mama parrots give their babies names:
… Read the rest “Parrot names.”Before a green-rumped parrotlet is even able to chirp
SONG: “The Shape of Your Words.” (To download: double right-click & “Save As”)
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: Based on “Kiki or bouba? In search of language’s… Read the rest “SONG: The Shape of Your Words”
That’s the question posed by a fun linguistic think-piece in the New York Times. The article looks over the latest developments in linguistic determination – the idea that… Read the rest “What do you have to say?”
Discovery News takes another look at Iron Age Scotland and finds something more than pretty pictures:
… Read the rest “So that’s what written Pict looks like….”The ancestors of modern Scottish people left behind mysterious, carved stones that
And, Wired says, we’re just about able to understand their vocabulary… and their grammar:
… Read the rest “Monkey talk.”Lemasson’s team previously described the monkeys’ use of calls with specific meanings
Just in case you thought we knew everything there was to know about the ancient world, New Scientist brings a little mystery back with their list of eight untranslated alphabets:
… Read the rest “Needed: Rosetta Stones, good condition, not yet used.”These fall
Forget Hebrew, Latin and Old Norse – the Page F30 blog reports on folks out there working to bring back a really old language:
… Read the rest “Ammā Dnghu: A taste for PIE.”That’s the concept behind the reconstruction of
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