When did humans develop language? + How whistle languages work
When language evolved, how whistled languages work, and what alien languages might be like. 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.
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.