Linguists can mix, match or even break the rules of real-world languages to create interesting imaginary ones.

Learn how early human language relied on simple verb-noun combinations, and how these structures still survive today as clues to how speech first developed. Before full sentences, human language may ...

The data-labelling industry relies heavily on workers in Kenya and Nigeria to annotate what AI systems learn. Those same workers rarely see their languages reflected in the systems they help train.

Imagine you’re a physician and you are called in to evaluate a patient who has had a sudden change in his neurological status, likely a stroke. You find him alert, mobile, and talking. But when you ...

They're a firm part of our language and even speak to us of our national culture -- but some words aren't quite as English as we think. Terms such as ‘law’, ‘ugly’, ‘want’ and ‘take’ are all loanwords ...