based on existing words in different languages.) The participants were “significantly less likely” to select the words with approximants when asked to identify swear words, McKay and Lev-Ari ...

Lazic says his love for the Albanian language began with music. "I remember that in high school I listened to some songs and I didn't understand a single word, [but] I liked that positive energy ...

So perhaps it's no surprise different languages highlight different areas of vocabulary. Scholars have noted that Mongolian has many horse-related words, that Maori has many words for ferns ...

While different languages may have different swear words, they tend to all lack similar sounds, new research suggests. Sounds such as I, r, and w are missing from a range of swear words across five ...

is a “universal word,” the first studied by modern linguists. Dingemanse’s team analyzed recordings of people speaking ten different languages, including Spanish, Chinese and Icelandic ...

While different languages may have different swear words, they tend to all lack similar sounds, new research suggests. Sounds such as I, r, and w are missing from a range of swear words across ...