Communication is central to human connection, and while spoken language dominates, it is not the only way to express thoughts ...

The thousands of languages spoken throughout the world draw on many of the same fundamental linguistic abilities and reflect universal aspects of how humans categorize events. Some aspects of language ...

How great that hearing people are learning sign language (15 January, p 27). How sad that the signs aren’t the same all over the world. If legend is correct, the early peoples of the Americas had ...