Study of primate vowel sounds pushes speech evolution back 27 million years
New evidence suggests that the dawn of speech came before the time of our last common ancestor with Old World monkeys
Chimp calls and human language origins
The apes’ calls seem to resemble sounds like laughter and crying rather than elements of a true language Michael Wilson, University of Minnesota Freud, Wilkie and the other chimpanzees peacefully…
Language cues to human migration
Comparing linguistic features of languages and possible sources of origin provides a history of when and how people moved across continents Nicole Creanza, Vanderbilt University and André Ché Sherriah, University…
New language discovered in Malaysia
Researching another tongue, linguists stumbled upon a group of 280 hunter-gatherers who spoke Jedek A previously unknown language has been found in the Malay Peninsula by linguists from Lund University…