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Babies are found to cry in their mother's tongue

Babies are found to cry in their mother's tongue

Just days after birth, German and French infants' wails mimicked the patterns of their languages.

 

Rise of Mandarin Changes the Sound of Chinatown

Cantonese, formerly dominant, is being swept aside by Mandarin, the lingua franca of more recent immigrants.

 

Dogs As Smart As 2-Year-Old Kids: Study

The canine IQ test results are in: Even the average dog has the mental abilities of a 2-year-old child. The finding is based on a language development test, revealing average dogs can learn 165 words (similar to a 2-year-old child), including signals and gestures, and dogs in the top 20 percent in intelligence can learn 250 words.

 

French tourists ranked as world’s worst

French tourists ranked as world’s worst

French tourists are the worst in the world, coming across as bad at foreign languages, tight-fisted and arrogant, according to a survey of 4,500 hotel owners across the world.

 

English set to get millionth word?

English set to get millionth word?

English contains more words than any other other language on the planet and will add its millionth word early Wednesday, according to the Global Language Monitor, a Web site that uses a math formula to estimate how often words are created.

 

New atlas shows dying languages around the world

Only one native speaker of Livonian remains on Earth, in Latvia. The Alaskan language Eyak went extinct last year when its last ...

 

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