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The ancestral language of half the world reveals our shared culture

The hunt for the prehistoric mother tongue that gave rise to dozens of the languages we speak today reminds us of the scientific case for international identity

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Oldest legible sentence written with first alphabet is about head lice

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How the secrets of ancient cuneiform texts are being revealed by AI

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How the secrets of ancient cuneiform texts are being revealed by AI

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How the secrets of ancient cuneiform texts are being revealed by AI

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How the secrets of ancient cuneiform texts are being revealed by AI

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Meta's AI can translate between 204 languages, including rare ones

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Quantum microphone works even better than a regular one

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Help to unlock the secrets of written language by playing Glyph

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How language evolved: A new idea suggests it’s all just a game

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How language evolved: A new idea suggests it’s all just a game

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Celsus Library in ancient city Ephesus

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AI can help historians restore ancient texts from damaged inscriptions

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Why everyone should learn some sign language

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Why everyone should learn some sign language

Sign languages are flourishing in many parts of the world. This could bring cognitive benefits for all who learn them, says Bencie Woll

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A West African writing system shows how letters evolve to get simpler

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Languages could go extinct at a rate of one per month this century

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Using tools helps you understand language and vice versa

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Origins of Japanese and Turkish language family traced back 9000 years

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