Imagine walking through a lush rainforest, guided not by a map, but by words—words so ancient and precise that they can point ...

The AI revolution, which has begun to transform our lives over the past three years, is built on a fundamental linguistic ...

"Being Yaqui is this whole way of life," and Carlos Valencia is using art, language and education to strengthen his community ...

Abstract: In recent years, a lot of local languages require careful consideration in terms of knowledge exchange. Each language creates a sophisticated understanding system that allows users to ...

Chelsea T. Hicks and Claire Campo are leading efforts to revive Indigenous languages through the "Words of the People: Rematriation Retreat", an immersive event designed for 100 Indigenous ...

So perhaps it’s no surprise different languages highlight different areas of vocabulary. Scholars have noted that Mongolian has many horse-related words, that Maori has many words for ferns ...

Sign language has one great advantage over the spoken word, Rose Ayling-Ellis explained in her deafness documentary Old Hands, New Tricks earlier this month. Every gesture resonates with emotion.

Each new generation puts its mark on language in culture, in part by inventing words and phrases. Sometimes those new contributions to language describe new concepts or developments, but often ...

Consider how the often-used word “focused” has taken on the adjective “laser,” to become the fully hackneyed “laser-focused.” Not all hackneyed language comes in full phrases ...