The focus of most of these columns has been primarily on that branch of grammar known as syntax – that is, the arrangement of words in phrases and sentences. But grammar is considered to have two ...

Sperm whales: They’re just like us. An international team of researchers, including marine biologists and linguists, reports that it has detected signs of a “highly complex” phonetic alphabet in the ...

Off the coast of Dominica, a small Caribbean island nation, researchers have spent years lowering hydrophones into deep water and tagging sperm whales with acoustic sensors, capturing thousands of the ...

How many vowels does English have? Five, right? A, E, I, O, U. Oh, and sometimes Y. So, six? Actually, English has at least 14 different vowel sounds and, depending on the speaker and dialect, maybe ...

The Russian alphabet has 33 letters, but this song from Russian Sesame Street is so catchy, it doesn't seem like so many. The Malaysian language can be written with the Latin alphabet or in Jawi, a ...