Most organisms communicate, but humans are unique in communicating via symbolic language. This entails relationships between signifiers (e.g. words) and what's signified (e.g. objects or ideas), where ...
CEBU CITY, Philippines– The Philippines is like a linguistic treasure chest, packed with over 170 languages and dialects spoken from Luzon, Visayas and Mindanao. A beautiful archipelago rich in ...
There are currently ∼7,000 different living human languages. The peak of language diversity may have been ∼10,000 years ago when up to 20,000 different languages might have been spoken. Languages ...