Previous studies on the processing of sign language in the human brain had already found some similarities and also differences between sign languages and spoken languages.

What is the oldest language in the world? Well, it depends. Scholars debate how to determine when a language began: when it was written, or spoken?

While most research on bilingualism compares people who speak two languages to those who just speak one, this study compares bilinguals of different languages and writing systems.

The Brain Interprets Spoken and Written Language the Same Way Neural activity associated with the meaning of words is independent of whether those words are read or listened to, a study finds.

Ancient Egyptian is one of the first written languages, appearing around 3200 BCE in hieroglyphs. While the spoken form evolved over thousands of years, its latest stage, Coptic, is still used in ...

Politics says something different For political scientists, the difference between a language and a dialect is not based on mutual understandability, but rather politics.

Using a complex statistical model, the researchers accounted for differences associated with age, gender, type of linguistic judgment, performance accuracy and the method -- written or spoken ...