What is the oldest language in the world? Well, it depends. Scholars debate how to determine when a language began: when it was written, or spoken?

The Brain Interprets Spoken and Written Language the Same Way Neural activity associated with the meaning of words is independent of whether those words are read or listened to, a study finds.

Over 70 million deaf people use sign languages as their preferred communication form. Although they access similar brain structures as spoken languages, it hasn't been identified the brain regions ...

Around 1,500 endangered and rare languages are at a high risk of being lost in the next century, according to a study of thousands of spoken languages. The study, published on Thursday in Nature ...

Ancient Egyptian is one of the first written languages, appearing around 3200 BCE in hieroglyphs. While the spoken form evolved over thousands of years, its latest stage, Coptic, is still used in ...

Neil Bermel receives funding from the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council. Vladimir Putin has written about the “historical unity” of the Ukrainian and Russian peoples, in part through their ...

Language samples may consist of written, signed, and spoken language samples. Written language samples are the easiest way to see this, but if appropriate for a student who uses spoken language, ...

The new languages are spoken by more than 614 million people across the globe, representing around 8% of the world's population, according to Google.

Politics says something different For political scientists, the difference between a language and a dialect is not based on mutual understandability, but rather politics.