The Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis explores the idea that language helps shape our worldviews and perceptions in many ways.

If you are fluent in any language other than English, you have probably noticed that some things are impossible to translate exactly. A Japanese designer marveling at an object's shibui (a sort of ...

Numeracy or numerosity, the ability to think about and use numbers, varies among human cultures and within populations, much like intelligence does. Many known languages, for example, have no words ...

We’re so used to languages borrowing from each other that it’s hard to imagine how an “isolate language” would work. Old Norse runes. Though so much has been lost, we have got better, in recent years, ...

In A Myriad of Tongues (Harvard Univ., Sept.), University of Miami anthropologist Everett examines the ways language shapes how people think. How did spending your childhood in the jungles of Amazonia ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Numbers do not exist in all cultures. There are numberless hunter-gatherers embedded deep in Amazonia, living along branches of ...

KOKO the gorilla knew over 1,000 signs based on American Sign Language, and used them to do everything from asking for food to joking around. Her trainer and long-term companion, Penny Patterson, ...