A mixture of anxiety and excitement coursed through Keanini Aarona in the weeks before five Hawaiian crows, or ʻalalā, were ...

Floridians were enraged last summer when a viral video showed men offshore Panama City capturing a giant manta ray, a ...

Vice President C P Radhakrishnan on Friday asserted that India’s many languages have never divided the nation but have instead preserved and strengthened a shared civilisational ethos and a common ...

From Latin and Chinese to Tamil and Telugu, discover the top ten most popular writing scripts used around the world ...

For Estelle Balsirow ’26, language is more than a field of study: it’s a reclamation. Balsirow, a Kalmyk-American linguistics major, is one of the first Yale students to study Kalmyk — an endangered ...

Bringing with them the languages of their homelands, immigrants newly arrived by ship at Ellis Island await official processing and approval to reach their destination—New York City, already in sight.

Andrew Cowell currently receives funding from National Science Foundation. Past funding related to the work described here has come from the American Council of Learned Societies and Hans Rausing ...

Next June, the College of Liberal Arts will be hosting the 2026 Institute on Collaborative Language Research, also known as CoLang. From June 22 to July 10, 2026 this nation-wide event will bring ...

When every known speaker of the Amurdag language gets together, there's still no one to talk to. Native Australian Charlie Mangulda is the only person alive known to speak that language, one of ...

Meta has just released a new multilingual automatic speech recognition (ASR) system supporting 1,600+ languages — dwarfing OpenAI’s open source Whisper model, which supports just 99. Is architecture ...

UC San Diego researchers have found high levels of lead in the teeth of both Neanderthals (left) and modern humans (right). However, a gene mutation may have protected modern human brains, allowing ...

Rengmitca is a language that only six people in the world speak. Five of them are over the age of 60, and the remaining one is almost 50. They live deep in the hill tracts of Bandarban — four in ...