Exploring the lost golden age of language diversity before expanding empires drove a global decline

Today, people speak or sign around 7,500 languages. Yet this figure provides only a snapshot of a constantly changing history ...
USA Today

What is the oldest language? Endangered and extinct languages, explained.

Corrections & clarifications: An earlier version of this story contained inaccurate or incomplete facts about the history of language. Language is an essential part of human communication, allowing ...
Princeton University

Hans Aarsleff, ‘towering’ scholar of the history of the study of language, dies at 100

Hans Aarsleff, a professor of English and renowned scholar of the history of the study of language, died July 1. He was 100.
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The History of Language Learning and Teaching III: Across Cultures

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The History of Language Learning and Teaching II: 19th-20th Century Europe

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First languages of North America traced back to two very different language groups from Siberia

Johanna Nichols, a linguist at the University of California, Berkeley, has used her pioneering work in the field of language history to learn more about language development in North America. She has ...
The Conversation

The story of how Swahili became Africa’s most spoken language

Once just an obscure island dialect of an African Bantu tongue, Swahili has evolved into Africa’s most internationally recognised language. It is peer to the few languages of the world that boast over ...