language

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…

6 years ago

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,…

7 years ago

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…

8 years ago

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…

8 years ago