From Shakespearean sonnets to impassioned speeches to lovers' whispers, human language is an amazingly rich form of expression, whose evolution has long puzzled scientists. Now, some researchers ...

While other primates have exhibited simple vocabularies, it has long been believed that syntax, the construction of sentences, was unique to humans. But a recent study suggests that at least one ...

The chatty nature of female monkeys hints at the social origins of language. Nov. 20, 2008— -- Women may be fed up with being stereotyped as the chattier sex, but the cliche turns out to be true ...

A selfie taken by a black macaque monkey and an entire aboriginal language were asked to be removed from Wikipedia by people who claimed to have the copyrights to them, the Wikimedia Foundation said ...

The language of Old World monkeys, some of our primate cousins, may be more sophisticated than previously realized. Even so, it displays constraints that reinforce the singularity of human language, ...

A PLAID Cymru MP has written angrily to the Home Secretary about a book review in a national newspaper that describes Welsh as an “appalling and moribund monkey language”. Jonathan Edwards, the MP for ...

What sounds like music to us may just be noise to a macaque monkey. That's because a monkey's brain appears to lack critical circuits that are highly sensitive to a sound's pitch, a team reported ...

In this article, we will look at the 15 best Duolingo alternatives to boost your language skills. We will also discuss the language learning market. If you want to skip our detailed analysis, you can ...

WOMEN may be fed up with being stereotyped as the chattier sex, but the cliche turns out to be true – in female-centric monkey groups at least. The gossipy nature of female macaques also adds weight ...