Why you should use percentages, not words, to express probabilities.

Welcome to this study on word associations. On average, an adult knows about 40,000 words. As scientists studying language and memory we are interested in the nature or organization of this mental dictionary.

The Gorilla Foundation said Koko, the beloved western lowland gorilla that befriended Robin Williams and others, died in her sleep in Northern California.

All over the country all but 20 of the 250 Indigenous languages are highly endangered or, as some describe, in a deep sleep. But now they are waking up thanks to the word detectives, a dedicated group of linguists and teachers determined to make language revival a success. Desmond Crump is one of them.

A partnership between Google and Australian linguistic researchers could see AI play a role in digitising and preserving dozens of threatened languages.

Java programming language is originated from Sun Microsystems back in 1995. It is one of the widely used programming languages in the world. It is a general-purpose programming language which can be used by any developer to create his own applications. Java is one of the object-oriented programming languages like the earlier languages. In fact, most of the syntax is same as that of C++.

Collaborations among Egyptologists and digital linguistics promise global visualizations of what was written on inscriptions, papyri, wall paintings, and other sources of Hieroglyphs. It may also allow for more popular knowledge of Egyptian Hieroglyphs and encourage its assimilation into popular language-learning apps like Duolingo.

The Central Asian nation of Kazakhstan is changing its alphabet from Cyrillic script to the Latin-based style favoured by the West. What are the economics of such a change?

The English word "Earth", German "Erde", Swedish "jorden", and similar expressions in other Germanic languages come from Proto-Germanic *erþō, which meant, well, "earth". They are shown in brown

It is fascinating to wonder how these effects might play out in the real world, particularly in international politics. By Christian Jarrett

Blissymbols was invented by Charles K. Bliss (1897–1985). He wanted to create an easy-to-learn international auxiliary language to allow communication between different linguistic communities. He was inspired by Chinese characters, to create a language that is purely written.

Little has changed in the way of tactile reading and writing since Louis Braille published his braille system in 1829. But ELIA has big plans.

Lithuanian, the most conservative of all Indo-European languages, is riddled with references to bees.

This piece of pseudo-profanity is what's known as a taboo deformation—a word we say when we don't want to say the word.

Nomadic horse riders likely opened a “steppe bridge” between Europe and Asia, but recent genetic data raise more questions. By Roni Jacobson.

Researchers create a machine translation system that translates sentences of a test set of news articles from Chinese to English as well as a human.

Iceland’s mother tongue and cultural identity is drowning in an online ocean of English

A significant number of gestures made by chimps and bonobos mean the same thing.

A previously unknown language has been found in the Malay Peninsula by linguists from Lund University in Sweden. The language has been given the name Jedek.

On a small Greek island, practitioners of an ancient whistling language are holding onto their culture as it slowly dies out.