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A relief of scribes taking notes in ancient Nineveh (Credit: Alamy)
The Immortality Project

The languages that live forever

By Sophie Hardach

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Language
The language that doesn't use 'no'
By Eileen McDougall
When one language intrudes upon another, it can lead to some embarrassing slip ups (Credit: Getty Images)
Neuroscience
How languages mess with your brain
By Nicole Chang
Facebook recently rebranded as Meta (Credit: Getty Images)
Wise Words
Facebook: The true meaning of 'meta'
By Nathan Dufour Oglesby
A tribal farmer on the phone in Lanjigadh village, Odisha, India (Credit: Alamy)
India
India's many hidden languages
By Agnee Ghosh
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Mathematics
How our digits reveal our nationalities
By Anand Jagatia
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Language
The hand gestures that never die
By William Park
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Cities
The invisible patterns in street names
By Richard Fisher
What you are called can have some subtle influences on your personality (Credit: Lisa Kling/Getty Images)
Personology
How your name shapes who you are
By Christian Jarrett
The sound of some words and names have a powerful effect on the way we think (Credit: Eric Audras/Getty Images)
Psychology
The sounds that change how we think
By Sophie Hardach
Wolof is a language spoken in Senegal, the Gambia and Mauritania, but is not well served by popular auto-translation tools (Credit: Seyllou/Getty Images)
Machine Minds
The languages that defy auto-translate
By Sophie Hardach
A graveyard in Louisiana with a chemical plant on the horizon (Credit: Alamy)
Wise Words
The 'slow violence' affecting millions
By Richard Fisher
A growing body of research suggests there are many benefits to reading aloud (Credit: Alamy)
Neuroscience
The surprising power of reading aloud
By Sophie Hardach
As more people in indigenous cultures get online, there is a risk that their own languages will become increasingly irrelevant if they cannot use them (Credit: Getty Images)
Language
The internet’s missing languages
By Miguel Trancozo Trevino
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Language
The alphabets at risk of extinction
By Andrea Valentino
A dinosaur skeleton (Credit: Getty Images)
Language
The people with no word for dinosaur
By Christine Ro