Our languages are Turkish. Virally so.
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, […]
linguistics
Parrot names.
Wired brings us another step closer to talking with the animals, thanks to research showing that mama parrots give their babies names: Before a green-rumped […]
SONG: The Shape of Your Words
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 […]
What do you have to say?
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 – […]
So that’s what written Pict looks like….
Discovery News takes another look at Iron Age Scotland and finds something more than pretty pictures: The ancestors of modern Scottish people left behind mysterious, […]
Monkey talk.
And, Wired says, we’re just about able to understand their vocabulary… and their grammar: Lemasson’s team previously described the monkeys’ use of calls with specific […]
Needed: Rosetta Stones, good condition, not yet used.
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 […]
Ammā Dnghu: A taste for PIE.
Forget Hebrew, Latin and Old Norse – the Page F30 blog reports on folks out there working to bring back a really old language: That’s […]