Showing posts with label languages. Show all posts
Showing posts with label languages. Show all posts
Wednesday, November 3, 2021

World's Languages Can Be Traced Back To A Single African Mother Tongue

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The World: World's languages traced back to single African mother tongue: scientists   Scientists say they have traced the world's ...
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Sunday, October 7, 2018

How Do Some People Have The Ability To Quickly Learn And Speak Multiple Languages?

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Judith Thurman, New Yorker : People Who Speak Dozens of Languages What can hyperpolyglots teach the rest of us? Last May, Luis Miguel...
Monday, March 12, 2012

A Universal Translator Becomes Reality

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William Shatner as James T Kirk: The new device is similar to the Universal Translator used in Star Trek, and takes around one hour to get u...
Monday, June 13, 2011

Ancient Language Dictionary Finished

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Martha Roth, Editor in Charge of the Assyrian Dictionary at the University of Chicago, puts the final volume in the set of books. (Credit: U...
Friday, October 1, 2010

Google Launches Latin Translation Tool

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Google has added Latin to its list of languages on Google Translate From The Telegraph: Google Translate, a service that can instantly trans...
Wednesday, December 16, 2009

The Beckoning Silence: Why Half Of The World's Languages Are in Serious Danger Of Dying Out

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Language hotspots are areas with extreme linguistic diversity, containing many highly endangered and underdocumented languages From The Inde...
Sunday, October 18, 2009

Technology Brings New Insights To One Of The Oldest Middle Eastern Languages Still Spoken

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Tablets uncovered at Persepolis in Iran are covered with writing in Aramaic. The archive, being studied at the University of Chicago, provid...
Sunday, September 6, 2009

Universal Translator For Web Browsers

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From New Scientist: EVER wondered what the Arabic or Chinese press are saying about the issues of the day? Finding out just got a lot easier...
Wednesday, August 26, 2009

Dying Languages Archived For Future Generations

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Cambridge University From The Telegraph: A Cambridge University project to safeguard the world's 6,000 spoken languages has been launche...
Thursday, May 28, 2009

Decoding Antiquity: Eight Scripts That Still Can't Be Read

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Photo: The Etruscan Alphabet - Shown here are two of three gold plaques from Pyrgi, circa 500BC. The plaque on the left is written in Etrusc...
Saturday, February 21, 2009

As The World's Languages Disappear, Basque Revives

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From McClatchy: ST. JEAN DE LUZ, France — The world is losing languages at an alarming rate, a United Nations agency reported Thursday, with...
Friday, February 20, 2009

New Atlas Shows Dying Languages Around The World

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Click On The Image To Enlarge (Image from Thinking Shift ) From Yahoo News/AP: PARIS – Only one native speaker of Livonian remains on Earth,...
Wednesday, October 29, 2008

Why Some People Have A Better Head For Languages

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(Image from Baltic Media ) From Science Daily: ScienceDaily (Oct. 26, 2008) — Learning a second language is usually difficult and often when...