As the use of generative AI becomes increasingly common, we must beware of an algorithmic colonization of language and ...

Researchers discovered that Hawaiian monk seals use a surprisingly complex range of underwater sounds, including new call types never documented before.

For centuries, Tur Abdin, encompassing parts of today's Mardin Province, served as a spiritual and cultural heartland, dotted ...

For Estelle Balsirow ’26, language is more than a field of study: it’s a reclamation. Balsirow, a Kalmyk-American linguistics major, is one of the first Yale students to study Kalmyk — an endangered ...

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.

“The Moon that fell from heaven”—a story first inscribed on clay tablets in the 14th century BCE—begins with a celestial accident: the Moon tumbles to earth and encounters the workings of nature. In a ...

DURANT, Okla. (KTEN) — The Choctaw Nation is partnering with Rosetta Stone to preserve the tribe's language. The immersive digital course will be developed as part of Rosetta Stone's Endangered ...

Andrew Cowell currently receives funding from National Science Foundation. Past funding related to the work described here has come from the American Council of Learned Societies and Hans Rausing ...

Meta has just released a new multilingual automatic speech recognition (ASR) system supporting 1,600+ languages — dwarfing OpenAI’s open source Whisper model, which supports just 99. Is architecture ...

UC San Diego researchers have found high levels of lead in the teeth of both Neanderthals (left) and modern humans (right). However, a gene mutation may have protected modern human brains, allowing ...

Rengmitca is a language that only six people in the world speak. Five of them are over the age of 60, and the remaining one is almost 50. They live deep in the hill tracts of Bandarban — four in ...

TAOS — Students from Taos Pueblo face a difficult choice each year: Start classes a week behind their peers, or start school on time and miss out on annual Pueblo cultural practices? This year, Vista ...