For example, hearing language about people tends to activate one area of the brain, about places in another, and about numbers in a third–demonstrating a basic organizing principle for how the ...

On Reddit user Fummy's map, these are colored in light yellow as Category III languages. And here are the hardest and easiest languages to learn around the world. A world map of the FSI's language ...

Similar research on the Eurasian Altaic language group, whose proto-language dates back an estimated 8,000 years, confirmed a positive signal of a relationship between most major branches of ...

Did you know that New York City residents collectively speak at least 637 languages and dialects? A recent impressive map from the non-profit Endangered Language Alliance, first reported by ...

Conversation is a dynamic, real-time activity, requiring the brain to continuously switch between understanding and producing language. Most past research has studied these abilities in isolation ...

One of the ways America shows its diverse culture is in the sheer number of languages spoken by the country's people. The above map shows which languages other than English and Spanish are the ...