Coptic represents the last phase of the ancient Egyptian language, evolving from hieroglyphs and demotic into a form written ...

Languages evolve in fascinating and sometimes mysterious ways, but how long can a language last before it becomes unrecognizable? In this second part of our Dyirbal Glottochronology series, we ...

Throughout human history, there have been many instances where two populations came into contact—especially in the past few ...

Luck plays a role in how language evolves, team finds Date: November 1, 2017 Source: University of Pennsylvania Summary: Read a few lines of Chaucer or Shakespeare and you'll get a sense of how ...

So random, and yet so normal. Letters tend to generate expressions. “OK” started in Jacksonian America with a jolly ...

New research may challenge what we thought we knew about the evolution of language, suggesting that grammar evolves faster than the lexicon.

Humans have language and other animals don't. That's obvious, but how it happened is not. Since Darwin's time, scientists have puzzled over the evolution of language. They can observe the present-day ...

The social media generations For insight into how language is changing and how it may evolve in the future, look no further than Generation Alpha.

The goal was to get them talking — and talking naturally. These recordings, rich with unguarded speech, provide a window into how language evolves in real time. Using new tech for old recordings ...