A new study of people who speak many languages has found that there is something special about how the brain processes their native language. In the brains of these polyglots—people who speak five or ...

People across the world describe their thoughts and emotions, share experiences and spread ideas through the use of thousands of distinct languages. These languages form a fundamental part of our ...

WHY? is our attempt to answer all the questions every little kid asks. Do you have a question? Send it to why@mentalfloss.com. Did you know there are about 7000 languages in the world today? That’s a ...

Africa is a multilingual continent and many adults speak several languages fluently. An empirical study by a research team led by the Potsdam psycholinguists Prof. Dr. Natalie Boll-Avetisyan and Paul ...

Linguists say minority languages are going through a mass extinction event, but there are still successful efforts at preserving native speakers. Endangered vernaculars have been dying out at ...

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