A unique cipher that uses playing cards and dice to turn languages into glyphs produces text eerily similar to the glyphs in ...

Linguistics is one of the degrees most often dragged through the mud for being “useless,” but The Lord of the Rings, one of ...

The Gathering’s next set, Lorwyn Eclipsed, begin Jan. 16, and while the full preview season is scheduled to kick off Jan. 5, Mark Rosewater just shared a long list of mechanical details that’ll appear ...

Researchers at a Welsh university have begun work on the first comprehensive dictionary of the ancient Celtic languages spoken in Ireland and Britain. The three-year project, led by Dr Simon Rodway at ...

Nancy Brady has been gratified to see the tool she and colleagues pioneered over a decade ago to measure the growth of infants' pre-speech communication skills translated into several languages and ...

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Bringing with them the languages of their homelands, immigrants newly arrived by ship at Ellis Island await official processing and approval to reach their destination—New York City, already in sight.

Ancient DNA reveals Indo-European speakers came from a region where multiple populations mixed and migrated over time. Geralt via Wikimedia Commons under CC0 New research analyzing ancient DNA may ...

Today, Spanish is the de facto national language of Mexico, but that wasn’t always the case. Before the arrival of the conquistadors in the 16th century, Mexico lacked a dominant language, instead ...

Researchers find a link between early vocabulary composition and later language development in children with cochlear implants. A University of Miami study offers new insights into language ...

The end is in sight for The Rings of Power season 2 as the finale beckons. But before we get ahead of ourselves, we have a hugely dramatic penultimate episode of the Lord of the Rings prequel to ...