What shapes the structure of languages? In a new study, an international team of researchers reports that grammatical structure is highly flexible across languages, shaped by common ancestry, ...

Have you ever thought about the total number of languages that exist today? Well, if you thought that there were just a few hundred, then you are very wrong indeed! In reality, there are more than ...

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There are more than 7,000 languages in the world, and their grammar can vary a lot. Linguists are interested in these differences because of what they tell us about our history, our cognitive ...

Aramaic (Middle East - Mesopotamia): Originating around 1200 BCE in ancient Mesopotamia, Aramaic became a prominent language across the Near East and is still used in religious contexts today. Tamil ...

New research shows that a majority of Indigenous languages in America are endangered. NPR's Scott Detrow speaks with Native American language preservationist Alaina Tahlate. Language researchers just ...

Dots on the maps in this piece represent, among other things, efforts to revitalize a language as well as communities of speakers. Most people think of endangered languages as far-flung or exotic, the ...

Linguists have long been interested in language variation. What are common or universal patterns across languages? What limits the possible variation between them? Grambank, the world's largest and ...