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Al-Sayyid village

Life

A language is born 鈥� and now it is dying

A remarkable language that emerged just 75 years ago now seems doomed. Can linguists decode its secrets before it disappears?

sign for man

Humans

Some languages die 鈥� get over it

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Humans

Fast asleep? Your unconscious is still listening

argue artwork

Humans

Computers that can argue will be satnav for the moral maze

A variety of dogs that were trained to sit still so they could have their brains scanned

Environment

Dogs process language like us and can tell when we praise them

A person speaking close to someone else's ear

Technology

Whisper tech turns secrets into normal speech

Someone making the British Sign Language gesture for "N", against a pink background

Humans

First evidence that synaesthesia gives colour to sign language

Two budgies sit on a branch facing one another

Environment

Budgies use grammar to find meaning in unfamiliar phrases

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Mind

From autism to Chinese, a headset to help you with your language

artwork of the brain

Health

The teenager who can’t help speaking in a French accent

Scanning the brain of a boy who has foreign accent syndrome has revealed that we use the cerebellum, a primitive region of our brains, to plan speech

Humans

Map of the brain’s word filing system could help us read minds

Environment

Dolphins have a language that helps them solve problems together

Health

Stuttering isn’t only psychological 鈥� and a cure might be coming

Environment

Whale algorithm could unlock secrets of their many dialects