Anna Luisa Daigneault volunteers for Living Tongues Institute for Endangered Languages, a non-profit organization whose work is not connected to contents of this article. Université de Montréal ...

Learning new languages physically changes your brain and increases your cognitive abilities. But what really happens in the brain, and does speaking many languages really make you smarter?

Even if you can't get free access to Mango Languages through your library or another institution, you can try out a free lesson to see if it suits you, before having to pay (or even register an ...

Language: The Manchu language belongs to the Manchu-Tungusic branch of the Altaic language family. Today, spoken Mandarin Chinese and Chinese characters are commonly used among the Manchus in ...

ABSTRACT: The article compares the root morphemes of common lexemes of a number of languages of Eurasia, which have identical origins. Facts of the Turkic languages are used as the main material.

Languages are windows into the worlds of the people who speak them—reflecting what they value and experience daily. Using computational methods, we identified areas of vocabulary that are ...

In her latest book, Father Tongue, Mother Land, author and linguist Peggy Mohan dives deep into the formation of languages in South Asia. With detailed research, she showcases how migration and ...

President Donald Trump issued an executive order declaring English as the nation's official language, but Native leaders dispute its reach. For many years, the federal government tried to erase ...

Vintage illustration of Examples of Manchu writing, East Asian Tungusic language, 18th Century, Universal palaeography, J B Silvestre. An East Asian Tungusic language native to the historical region ...

Every year, Ethnologue mines the data on more than 7000 languages to see which ones are most popular across the globe. Read on to find out if your native language topped the 2023 list (and learn a ...

Technology is accelerating the rate of language disappearance, even while it offers the hope of preserving those that are endangered or extinct. A new crowd-sourcing platform aims to preserve the ...