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George Campbell and his friends are among the few remaining curators of a dying language. 
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Parents are often amazed by the speed at which children acquire language in early childhood, becoming fluent around three years of age.
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When linguists talk about unconscious or implicit language learning, they don’t mean learning while you sleep.
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Body language of both speaker and listener affects success in virtual reality communication game.
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Scientists are teasing out the earliest differences between brains exposed to one language and brains exposed to two. Via Dimitris Agorastos
Andrew Stoops's curator insight,
November 12, 2014 8:43 PM
This article was interesting in that you wouldn't really think about this unless you grew up in a bilingual house. Even then you may not realize that you have had to listen and grow up trying to discern between two languages. Babies can actually tell the difference and that fascinates me. 
Noah Bolitho's curator insight,
November 12, 2014 10:34 PM
I found this article from Andrew Stoops. Thanks man! I really liked it because because I come from a semi-bilingual family. My mom spoke fluent English and I either lived with my grandparents or they lived with me, and they really only knew Spanish, they knew very little English. I could have very easily learned Spanish well and be able to speak it but because I didn't need it outside of the house I never learned to use it. I really envy those that grew up speaking both languages. 
Kelli Jones's curator insight,
December 2, 2014 1:48 AM
This article talks about the benefits of teaching children more than one language. I think that Kinds should learn more than one language. Learning more than one language allows to communicate with all different types of people from all different places around the world. I wish that my parents knew a second language that they could have taught me. My friend Summer's mom speaks fluent spanish. I often hear her speaking it around the community and to other people that she knows can speak Spanish. But she didn't teach it to Summer or her siblings and Sumer wishes that she would have so that she wouldn't be taking spanish in high but she could learn another language instead.
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ABSTRACT Sometime in the early 17th century, at Magdalena de Cao, a community of resettled native peoples in the Chicama Valley on the North Coast of Peru, a Spaniard used the back of a letter to jot down the terms for numbers in a local language. Four hundred years later, the authors of this article were able to recover and study this piece of paper. We present information on this otherwise unknown language, on numeracy, and on cultural relations of ethnolinguistic groups in pre- and early-post-Conquest northern Peru. Our investigations have determined that, while several of the Magadalena number terms were likely borrowed from a Quechuan language, the remainder record a decimal number system in an otherwise unknown language. Historical sources of the region mention at least two potential candidate languages, Pescadora and Quingnam; however, because neither is documented beyond its name, a definite connection remains impossible to establish.
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Until recently, scientists figured that the origins of human language could be found in our vocal cords. That seems reasonable enough, but the latest evidence suggests our hands are actually the source of language...and a bunch of hand-waving primates agree.
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Young apes rely on arm waving and head shaking to get their message across, backing the idea that visual gestures were a first step on the road to human...
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Some birds seem to have grammatical rules in their songs. And they'll let you hear about it if you mess up. Visit Discover Magazine to read this article and other exclusive science and technology news stories.
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These cultural conventions are indicative of how a language impacts the worldview of the people who speak it.
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Merritt Ruhlen of Stanford University in California, and Murray Gell-Mann, at the Santa Fe Institute in New Mexico created a family tree for 2200 languages, living and dead, based on how they use similar sounds for the same meanings. Most modern languages use subject-verb-object sentences: "I see the dog", while most dead ones, such as Latin, go subject-object-verb – "I the dog see".
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New research has shown that learning a language may subtly change, and possibly improve, the way we think.
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"There are many sentient species on our own planet, and that would probably be a good model to start looking at how we might communicate with extra-terrestrial species," says Denise Herzing, founder and Director of the Wild Dolphin Project. Herzing has worked for three decades documenting the daily exchanges of a community of free-ranging Spotted dolphins off the coast of the Bahamas in hopes of finding a dolphin version of the Rosetta Stone.
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