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Humans

Help to unlock the secrets of written language by playing Glyph

Spot visual patterns in humanity’s many scripts and boost the science exploring graphical communication with the online game Glyph, says Layal Liverpool

Regulars

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

Humans

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

Features

Celsus Library in ancient city Ephesus

Humans

AI can help historians restore ancient texts from damaged inscriptions

News

Why everyone should learn some sign language

Humans

Why everyone should learn some sign language

Comment

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

Humans

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

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Ronnie Wavehill talking to his grandchildren about the early colonial days in his first language Gurindji

Humans

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

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question in the brain

Mind

Using tools helps you understand language and vice versa

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Woman carrying millet

Humans

Origins of Japanese and Turkish language family traced back 9000 years

News

Listen to an Australian duck say ‘you bloody fool’ like a human

Life

Listen to an Australian duck say ‘you bloody fool’ like a human

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Puzzle-solving great apes: The shared abilities underpinning language

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Puzzle-solving great apes: The shared abilities underpinning language

The evolutionary origins of speech may be glimpsed in the tool-using abilities of great apes.

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Life

Meet the puzzle-solving gorillas shedding light on how speech evolved

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Life

Monkeys can change their accent to communicate with another species

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Technology

The way we use emojis evolves like language and changes their meaning

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Humans

The alphabet may have been invented 500 years earlier than we thought

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