History shows that linguistics evolve in unpredictable ways — and that the supremacy of English is not guaranteed.

An ancient DNA study co-authored by Brown archaeologist Peter van Dommelen illustrates the complexity of human migration and ...

Scientists have identified a new pod of ancient people who lived near the land bridge between North America and South America ...

Indigenous Hands and Voices is an organization committed to the documentation and preservation of indigenous and minority signed and spoken language and cultural ...

The authors assert that this distinctiveness is just one part of the dialect’s intrigue. The rich history of pirates in the area, including the infamous Blackbeard, has led some to speculate that hoi ...

Ofelia Zepeda is a renowned poet and linguist, and one of the world’s foremost experts on the Tohono O’odham language.

For Elsa Caín-Yuqilema of Ecuador, language expresses one’s culture and when a language is lost, its culture will also vanish ...

The 97-year-old Skordis is one of only 900 people in the world who speak Cypriot Maronite Arabic, or Sanna. Today, his ...

Matt Fraser discusses the potential ways or languages in which people communicate in the afterlife. Trump administration officials say Secret Service is investigating Comey's '86 47' social media ...

Surprisingly, despite having no visual experience, many congenitally blind people show very similar color associations, which are likely learned through language. We show that these associations ...

However, we will start with one of those romantic issues: Love Language. Shannon explains how people communicate their love in different ways; and sometimes, when people who express their love ...

“You don’t have to travel to be immersed. [The language] brings people together.” Klingenberg began teaching American Sign Language at Duke last fall, with students now taking either ASL 101 or 102.