Thousands of years ago, an early human ventured deep within a cave, where sound reverberated off the walls. Perhaps by either speaking or walking, they generated the sound reminiscent of a hoof. To ...
Our ancestors emerged as a species 200,000 years ago and figured out how to use language about 100,000 years later. Scientists haven’t figured out how human language developed in the first place, ...
Some 1.5 billion people across the world speak one of the Sino-Tibetan languages, a family of languages linguists believe originated in Asia almost 6,000 years ago. The Sino-Tibetan family is made up ...