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, ...

David J. Peterson, the language creator for HBO's Game of Thrones, explains how to go about creating a fictional language. David breaks down how he constructed the Dothraki and Valyrian languages, and ...

This article was taken from the March issue of Wired UK magazine. Be the first to read Wired's articles in print before they're posted online, and get your hands on loads of additional content by ...

This release is also available in French, Spanish and Japanese. At a school in Managua, Nicaragua, deaf children are speaking a new language entirely their own, which nonetheless has remarkable ...

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 ...

Teaching fewer words to large language models might help them sound more human. By Oliver Whang When it comes to artificial intelligence chatbots, bigger is typically better. Large language models ...

Learning a new language is difficult and time-consuming. Yet, once one does so, one's ability to appreciate and experience a culture is fundamentally augmented. Whether someone heads to Ibiza for ...