Right now someone is speaking or thinking in a language that is on the verge of disappearing. Of the world's roughly 7,000 spoken languages, one dies every 40 days, according to one estimate - ...

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Do you know how languages were created? How was the first language formed? If you dig deeper, you may find that there are many theories related to the origin of the human language over time. The ...

Despite the vast diversity of human languages, specific grammatical patterns appear again and again. A new study reveals that ...

Listen to more stories on the Noa app. For the past decade, one of the most linguistically diverse places in the world, square mile after square mile, has been my home: Queens, New York. The ...

How many languages are there in the world? There are about 6,800 languages currently spoken in the world, according to Douglas Whalen, president of the Endangered Language Fund. But that number is ...

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 ...

The globe hums with thousands of languages. But when did humans first lay out a structured system to communicate, one that was distinct to a particular area? Scientists are aware of more than 7,100 ...