Atlantis is a fictional city, imagined by the ancient Greek philosopher Plato. In his dialogues he described a vastly advanced city that sank into the ocean never to be found. For centuries, Atlantis ...

Thomas Headland, international anthropology consultant, Summer Institute of Linguistics professor, UND Headland is an anthropologist with SIL International, Dallas, and adjunct professor of ...

Researchers at MIT have created a new system that uses machine learning to help linguists decipher languages that have been lost to time. Research suggests that most languages that have ever existed ...

There are many things that distinguish humans from other species, but one of the most important is language. The ability to string together various elements in essentially infinite combinations is a ...

A new AI system can automatically decipher a lost language that’s no longer understood — without knowing its relationship to other languages. Researchers at MIT CSAIL developed the algorithm in ...

We think of archeology as dusty, khaki-on-khaki work. If we want to learn something about our ancestors, we need to dig up their cultural artifacts and piece together, not just some broken piece of ...

As a member of the Spirit Lake Dakota Nation and a language professor, I must take issue with Helen Rountrees's assertion that Native Americans lost their languages by "a natural process that happens ...

When David Vásquez-Hurtado arrived at Fort Lewis College in August 2016, he was raring to start teaching Spanish. But he quickly noticed problems. The 3,300-student public college in southwestern ...

MASHPEE, Mass. — The Massachusetts tribe whose ancestors shared a Thanksgiving meal with the Pilgrims nearly 400 years ago is reclaiming its long-lost language, one schoolchild at a time. “Weesowee ...

A language lost due to colonization is being spoken once again by the Mattaponi. Mattaponi Chief Lionel “Wise Spirit” Custalow recently held a virtual Algonquin language class for tribal members ...

Our grandparents came from Mexico. The entire next generation spoke Spanish. However, in my generation, pretty much none of us do. One cousin’s daughter does because the cousin married a fluently ...