Proving Languages Are Related
How can linguists be so certain that English and ancient Sanskrit are cousins, while neighboring Finnish is a total stranger? It's not guesswork—it's a rigorous scientific process called the comparative…
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Freudian Slips or Brain Glitches? What Slips of the Tongue Reveal About How We Organize Language
When you accidentally say "a lack of pies" instead of "a pack of lies," what's really happening? While Freud saw hidden desires, modern linguists see a "brain glitch" that offers…
Word Avalanches: Sentences That Repeat the Same Sound
Word Avalanche: Sentences That Repeat the Same Sound In the colorful landscape of linguistics and playful word usage, a phenomenon known as the “word avalanche”...
Using Navajo as a Military Code Language
The global field of military communication has seen a variety of innovative and inventive strategies over centuries, from flag signals and drum beats to satellite...
Picturing the World: An Introduction to Egyptian Hieroglyphs
Egyptian Hieroglyphs, an amalgamation of pictorial symbols, is one of the earliest known writing systems in human history. Used extensively during the Pharaonic and Greco-Roman...
Sign Language: Exploring the Language of Silence
Sign language is more than just a collection of gestures; it is a rich, complex, and fully developed linguistic system that serves as the primary...