Here’s one way to stave off withdrawal from HBO’s hit show “Game of Thrones” after Season 4 wraps up tonight: learn Dothraki. On Oct. 7, HBO and Living Language will release “Living Language Dothraki: ...

Why do some languages have simpler grammars than others? Researchers propose that the size of the community influences the complexity of the language that evolves in it. When small and large groups of ...

A generation ago, Nicaragua was one of the few countries in the world without a widely used sign language for the hearing impaired. That changed in the late 1970s, when a group of deaf Nicaraguan ...

In this one-hour activity, students gain an understanding of the nature of human communication and foster a scientific view on languages. Through class activities, games, reading, and analysis, ...

The language we speak may influence not only our thoughts, but our implicit preferences as well. Psychologists found that bilingual individuals' opinions of different ethnic groups were affected by ...

During a week-long conference last week, researchers from the University of Queensland and Queensland University of Technology announced they had made robots they called lingodroids with the ability ...

Identical twins Matthew and Michael Youlden, renowned for their language skills, have achieved a rare linguistic feat, speaking 26 languages, including their secret, self-created language, Umeri.

Shujinkou weaponizes Japanese language characters to defeat grammatical demons. The role-playing game, developed by fourth-year linguistics and computer science student Julian Rice, aims to teach ...