By Will Dunham WASHINGTON, July 27 (Reuters) - Globally, people currently use roughly 7,500 languages, with English, Mandarin ...

Researchers at OIST gave a virtual robot curiosity, and it learned language twice as fast, playful detours and toddler ...

A Taiwan–led study of Mandarin-speaking learners shows that the sounds we hear and produce are deeply shaped by our prior ...

Across Africa, millions of children grow up speaking African languages at home but are later expected to learn through ...

Scientists have long wondered whether different neural mechanisms govern each language within a bilingual speaker’s brain. A ...

A new study led by Fabrice Niyigaba '27 reports the first digital tool for identifying online propaganda in Kinyarwanda, the ...

Researchers think humans may have spoken as many as 20,000 to 75,000 different languages during a period they’ve dubbed the ...

Neuroscientists found that logical reasoning does not rely on the brain regions involved in language processing.

New modeling suggests that tens of thousands of languages were spoken between 1,000 and 3,000 years ago, and that their ...

I’ve just returned from time in Europe and noted, with some sense of shame, my lack of bilingual-ness. Others seem to pick up ...

Sharing a common language is key to improved long-term health for Francophone and diverse linguistic communities, according ...

Today, people speak or sign around 7,500 languages. Yet this figure provides only a snapshot of a constantly changing history. How many languages existed before written records? Did agriculture reduce ...