Much research addresses how and why many of the earth's thousands of languages are disappearing. The question still arises, however, as to why it should matter to the rest of us if, say, Pite Sami, a ...

Languages have different ways of highlighting relevant information. Recent research shows that despite these differences, the consequences are the same: to trigger a brain response to process ...

The linguistic landscape is far more complicated than it first appears, with many isolated languages and sub-families that continue to challenge researchers. Some languages remain unclassified, while ...

Some Bantu languages spoken in southwestern Zambia and neighboring regions of Botswana, Namibia, and Angola are characterized by the presence of click consonants, whereas their closest linguistic ...

The Grassfields Bantu languages are spoken by about one-fifth of the population of Cameroon in a mountainous upland area in the country's West and Northwest Regions. The cultural continuity of many of ...

Bantu language shows that processing of focused information may be universal Peer-Reviewed Publication. Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics ...