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New DNA data reveals the origins of the Slavic peoples

Also this week: How our DNA holds the history of our language + The Cambridge dictionary adds 6,000 new words—and not everybody’s happy about it. Here’s what happened this week in language and linguistics.

Current Linguistics

Learning a second language can teach you to distinguish colors you don’t have in your first language

Also this week: Gesture may have been the origin of language + A new mind-reading AI can turn imagined speech into words. Here’s what happened this week in language and linguistics.

Current Linguistics

Researchers uncover the origins of the Uralic language family

Also this week: Today is National Navajo Code Talkers Day! And the K-pop band is making Korean Sign Language famous

Current Linguistics

A mysterious pre-Islamic script from Oman has been deciphered, while AI helps historians complete damaged Latin texts

Also this week: Does your native language affect how you feel pain? And did language evolve because of tools or baby talk? Here’s what happened this week in language and linguistics.

Current Linguistics

Who are better programmers—language nerds or math geeks? Can we identify extroverts by the language they use? Did the Huns speak a Yeniseian language?

Here’s what happened this week in language and linguistics.

Current Linguistics

Multilinguals may be more likely to take a vaccine if they read about it in English: Words shape how we process feelings and make decisions

Plus, can AI decode dead languages? And how do linguists reconstruct dead languages without AI? Here’s what happened this week in language and linguistics.

Current Linguistics

Did technology drive the evolution of language? Or was it music?

Here’s what happened this week in language and linguistics.

Current Linguistics

A Paleo-Hispanic alphabet is discovered in Spain, and researchers use AI to read 2,000-year-old scrolls burnt to a crisp by Mt. Vesuvius for the first time

Here’s what happened this week in language and linguistics.

Current Linguistics

Vocabulary undergoes natural selection just like species. Plus a new database on the languages of the Americas.

Here’s what happened this week in language and linguistics.

Current Linguistics

Islands are incubators of linguistic diversity, and people are more likely to cooperate with those who use similar linguistic constructions

Here’s what happened this week in language and linguistics.

Current Linguistics

Germans bemoan the “idiot’s apostrophe”, and research on using AI to communicate with dolphins wins the $100,000 Dolittle Prize

Here’s what happened this week in language and linguistics.

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New DNA data reveals the origins of the Slavic peoples

Learning a second language can teach you to distinguish colors you don’t have in your first language

Researchers uncover the origins of the Uralic language family

A mysterious pre-Islamic script from Oman has been deciphered, while AI helps historians complete damaged Latin texts

The last native speaker of Caddo dies at age 95

Who are better programmers—language nerds or math geeks? Can we identify extroverts by the language they use? Did the Huns speak a Yeniseian language?

Multilinguals may be more likely to take a vaccine if they read about it in English: Words shape how we process feelings and make decisions

Did technology drive the evolution of language? Or was it music?

A Paleo-Hispanic alphabet is discovered in Spain, and researchers use AI to read 2,000-year-old scrolls burnt to a crisp by Mt. Vesuvius for the first time

Vocabulary undergoes natural selection just like species. Plus a new database on the languages of the Americas.

Islands are incubators of linguistic diversity, and people are more likely to cooperate with those who use similar linguistic constructions

Germans bemoan the “idiot’s apostrophe”, and research on using AI to communicate with dolphins wins the $100,000 Dolittle Prize