As waves crash along the shores of Puget Sound, the descendants of the region’s earliest residents hear the words created by their ancestors.

When Gail Dana reflects on the status of the Passamaquoddy language, she can’t help but speak in oceanic analogies. “We know we can’t turn the tide. We see that every single day,” she said, gazing ...

Global interest in Irish culture is driving a surge in demand for Irish language classes, with students of all ages and ...

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Despite the great diversity of human languages, recurring grammatical patterns (termed ‘universals’) have been found. Using the Grambank database of more than 2,000 languages, spatiophylogenetic ...

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