
Welcome to Linguistic Discovery!
Linguistic Discovery explores the science and diversity of language, a field known as linguistics.
Here’s what happened this week in language and linguistics.
Here’s what happened this week in language and linguistics.
Why doesn’t English just have a plural “you” like other languages?
There are over thirty English words that derive from the Proto-Indo-European word for ‘one’. This is the story of how they came to be, and what that story teaches us about how language works.
Here’s what happened this week in language and linguistics.
Here’s what happened this week in language and linguistics.
We’re also making progress on talking to aliens, and a new book on Proto-Indo-European is on its way. Here’s what happened this week in language and linguistics.
Here’s what happened this week in language and linguistics.
When language evolved, how whistled languages work, and what alien languages might be like. Here’s what happened this week in language and linguistics.
Bonobos challenge the uniqueness of human language, penguins learn etymology, and China adopts a new gender-neutral pronoun. Here’s what happened this week in language and linguistics.
Here’s what happened this week in language and linguistics.
Where does the word “penguin” come from? French, Welsh, or Latin?