In this interview, Laura Spinney discusses how Proto-Indo-European spread through migration, social change, and population ...

Learning another language is one of the deepest and most human things one can possibly do, writes Douglas Hofstadter.

Humans are the only species known to use fully symbolic language: a system capable of expressing abstract ideas, imaginary worlds and endless combinations of meaning. But how did we get there? The ...

South African teachers should be using more than one language in their classrooms and teachers who can't should be provided with a teacher assistant specialist in another South African language. This ...

What a country creates shapes its culture, and even its identity. We know this to be the case, or else there wouldn’t be worldwide phenomena like K-Pop or Swiss chocolate. The inverse is also true, as ...

Ask him how it all began, and he remembers the ice. It was a bitter morning in January, 1982, when Bernard Cathomas, aged thirty-six, carefully picked his way up a slippery, sloping Zurich street. His ...