Wild chimpanzees alter the meaning of single calls when embedding them into diverse call combinations, mirroring linguistic operations in human language. Human language, however, allows an infinite ...

Humans are the only species on Earth known to use language. They do this by combining sounds into words and words into ...

Pope Leo, born Robert Francis Prevost, is the 267th successor to St. Peter and the first-ever American pontiff who arrives on ...

Chimpanzees combine hoots, calls and grunts to convey far more concepts than with single sounds alone. It may be a first among nonhuman animals.

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Inuit languages really do have many words for snow, linguists found—and other languages have conceptual specialties, too, ...

Scholars believe a language used 5,000 years ago on the Asian steppe was the source of many of the world’s modern tongues.

Yilan is a Japanese-based creole language that was developed from colonial interactions between the speakers of the ...