India, with its rich history, diverse culture, and complexity, is home to a multitude of languages that have evolved over ...

David McNeill challenges the popular 'gesture-first' theory that language first emerged in a gesture-only form and proposes a groundbreaking theory of the evolution of language which explains how ...

Such evidence is pieced together from a mixture of linguistic and non-linguistic sources like evolution theory, archaeology, psychology, and anthropology. She explains why language is so strange, ...

The languages still uttered around Europe today can be traced back to the prehistoric migrations of people around 5,200 years ...

Evidence for the origins of complex language can be found in creative two-word insults such as busy-body and kill-joy ...