Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. (L-R) Fiona Seah, Melissa Goh and Cherie Lim from NTU hope the My Father Tongue campaign will spur interest among younger ...

There has been a lot of research to back up the idea that people who use two or more languages everyday experience significant advantages. The brain training involved in having to use a different ...

The way you talk says something about where you were raised. Turns out, the same appears to be true for bats. Researchers at Tel Aviv University in Israel found that Egyptian fruit bats (Rousettus ...

Europe is unusual because it isn’t home to any native parrot species. But despite this, there is a rather large and diverse crowd of parrot species that have established naturalised populations after ...

Captive-bred parrots may develop a different dialect from their wild relatives and this could prevent them from being able to communicate effectively with their wild peers after they’re released ...

Linguists are always taken aback by the overwhelmingly negative and sometimes virulently expressed reaction they get when stating something that every linguist believes (and linguists do not agree on ...

Sperm whales communicate by making very loud clicks—which are actually the loudest noises produced by any animal—in a certain pattern, not unlike Morse code. But the cadence they use to talk among ...

New media such as smartphone apps are preserving China's local vernaculars, which are otherwise falling into disuse among the younger generation Computer codes are deciphering a lifeline for China's ...