
Welcome to Linguistic Discovery!
Linguistic Discovery explores the science and diversity of language, a field known as linguistics.
An analysis of the linguistics of The Three-Body Problem, and new research claiming to reconstruct Proto-Australian.
Imagine if every word you thought could be heard by everyone around you. In this world, thinking would be the same as communicating. What would language—and society—be like?
Why is "February" spelled with an ⟨r⟩?
Discovery Dispatch is a weekly roundup of the latest language-related news, research in linguistics, interesting reads from the week, and newest books and media!
Why don’t Americans pronounce herb with an /h/?
The Chitimacha language was once thought to be extinct, but today is undergoing a renaissance as young people learn the language again.
The earliest version of cuneiform wasn't used to write language at all—it was used to count! And that Sumerian system of counting still influences our counting systems today. Here's the story of Sumerian numerals.
William Labov was the father of sociolinguistics who pioneered the study of dialectology.
Chitimacha is a language isolate once spoken in the bayous of Louisiana west of New Orleans that is now being actively revitalized.
Why an apostrophe might determine the outcome of the U.S. presidential election.
Where do the world's writing systems come from?
Here are 3 things people get wrong about language.