It takes a lot of work to create a believable science fiction or fantasy universe, and that often includes developing ...

Very few people get to invent a new language that is heard by millions: DW talked to linguist Paul Frommer about how he ...

Despite the great diversity of human languages, recurring grammatical patterns (termed ‘universals’) have been found. Using the Grambank database of more than 2,000 languages, spatiophylogenetic ...