It’s astonishing how much we’ve discovered about these languages that have gone unspoken and unheard for millennia. In the ...

For hundreds of years, Andean people recorded information by tying knots into long cords. Will we ever be able to read them?

Biologists at Baylor College of Medicine have published the largest functional map of a brain ever made ... theorizes that human musicality and language may have arisen with bipedal movement.

Researchers often use the comparative approach to trace the evolutionary origins of human language by comparing the vocal production of other animals, particularly primates, with that of humans.

Chimpanzees combine hoots, calls and grunts to convey far more concepts than with single sounds alone. It may be a first among nonhuman animals.

A pair of studies finds that chimp communication includes both rhythmic structures and call combinations, two key elements of spoken language. Taken together, the studies add to an emerging "early ...

One fundamental question in science is to understand where this extraordinary capacity for language originates from. Researchers often use the comparative approach to trace the evolutionary origins of ...