Spoken language is believed to have emerged 50,000-100,000 years ago, giving humans valuable and unique skills such as sharing stories, preserving history, and ultimately, building complex societies.

We explore all periods of the history of the English language, from Old English to the present day, and examine the development and use of varieties of spoken and written English, both globally and ...

Learning a language can help with employability, but that focus is putting one of Australia’s most popular languages — and ...

An international team of linguists has developed a novel approach for testing genealogical relations among language families, revealing new insights into the history of languages native to the Amazon ...

The mid-19th century was a turbulent period in Welsh history. Popular risings and riots ... reason was the continued existence of the Welsh language. After a speech in 1846 by William Williams ...

History has been both kind and unkind to him. On the one hand, his name has become synonymous with a theory about how language affects thought, though it predated him by at least a century.

From 600 BC to 43 AD, early languages of Europe influenced the families of Celtic languages spoken across the continent. Two main groups of languages developed in the British Isles: Goidelic in ...