Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about the broad intersection of data and society. Language is inextricably interconnected with geography. Each day as we ...

Languages containing sounds called ejectives are more common in high-altitude regions (dark circles represent languages with ejectives, clear circles represent those without ejectives). The way ...

When is a "hill" a "mountain"? When does a road "cross" a park? When is a "pond" in English not a "pond" in French? They may sound like riddles, but for David Mark these questions point to a ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. —The popularity of genetic and ancestry services like Ancestry.com and 23andMe attests that people care about where their ancestors originated. The underlying assumption is that ...

In the present study, we analyzed new mtDNA data of 10 Isan ethnicities speaking languages belonging to two major families, namely the Tai-Kadai (Saek, Nyaw, Phu Tai, Kaleung, and Lao Isan) and the ...

OTTAWA, ON, Feb. 21, 2022 /CNW/ - IN ACKNOWLEDGEMENT of the commencement of the Decade of Indigenous Languages, and on this International Mother Languages Day, the geographical societies of the world ...

In the 10th century, an Arab geographer described the Caucasus region as a "mountain of tongues." The nickname has stuck to this day, likely because of how well it captures two of the area's main ...

This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article. The thatched roof held back the sun's rays, but it could not keep the tropical heat at bay. As everyone at the ...

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Since its inception, the internet has been viewed by technology experts and scholars as a way to access information at a global scale without having to overcome hurdles posed by ...