Today, humans speak over 7,000 languages, yet all of them might share a common origin that dates back at least 135,000 years. A new review suggests that a fundamental feature of human language was ...

we can with reasonable certainty consider that date to define the lower boundary of when human language was present in the ancestral modern human population,” write the researchers. “Genomic studies ...

The Department of Modern Languages currently offers programs in Arabic, Chinese, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Russian, Spanish and Portuguese. Language is how we communicate. It is how ...

Besides taking classes, students enjoy a bubbling extra-curricular life with conversation hours, a Modern Language movie night series, cooking classes and other events.

and Irish language and literature (both Early and Modern). Ranked 2nd in the UK for Celtic Studies, 100% of our impact is recognised as international (REF 2014); we have an 89% PhD researcher ...