Linguists study diverse languages. In order to transcribe the speech sounds of the world's many languages, linguists have developed a standardized alphabet known as the International Phonetic Alphabet ...

Why do Hs get dropped in some languages? Greek mythology is full of names starting with an H, yet the H sound is dropped in modern Greek, and also in Italian, French and Cockney English. It takes ...

From California to Maine, Florida to North Dakota, teenagers pour into the Las Vegas arena from all over the country chanting cheers. They shout louder and louder, trying to drown out one another. The ...

The Caddo Nation of Oklahoma announced the death of Edmond Johnson on July 14 Erin Clack is a Staff Editor for PEOPLE. She has been writing about fashion, parenting and pop culture for more than 15 ...

Nesyamun was an ancient Egyptian priest who sang chants as part of his ritual duties at the temple of Karnak in Thebes during the reign of Pharaoh Ramses XI. Now, 3,000 years after his death, ...

The archaeological site at Turkey’s Boğazköy-Hattusha, the former capital of the Bronze Age Hittite empire, is a hotbed of ancient languages. During excavations of the ruins, archaeologists uncovered ...

PUERTO WILLIAMS, Chile (Reuters) - Sitting in the warmth of a wood fire in her home in Chile's deep south, Cristina Calderón sometimes wishes she had more people to speak to in her mother tongue as ...

The Caddo Nation of Oklahoma announced the death of Edmond Johnson on July 14 Edmond Johnson, the last fluent speaker of an ancient Native American language, has died at age 95 The Caddo Nation of ...