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Before words, we'd use gestures and ape-like calls. But over thousands of years that grew into thousands of rich, complex ...

View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/how-languages-evolve-alex-gendler Over the course of human history, thousands of ...

Phonological Evolution (or sound shifts), along with Lexical Evolution and Grammatical Evolution are used to make a Conlang ...

Nearly everybody can communicate, and most do so through some form of language, and yet the question of where language ...

In this episode, we begin evolving the modern form of our sample language by establishing how our sounds are going to change ...

In this video, I present a monologue which gradually transitions from pre-literary Old English (c.450 AD) to an urban northeastern ...

I tend to reference language families a lot in my videos, but I realize this kinda depends on people already knowing the different ...

Speculation about the origins of human language is as old as history. This E-Lecture discusses two aspects of this topic: The ...

Languages drift, adapt and evolve much like living species. In this wide-ranging conversation, evolutionary biologist Richard ...

This video is brought to you by Aloud. Learn more about the video translation tool that's breaking the language barrier: ...

This video shows evolution of the French language. 0:03 Proto-Indo-European, reconstructed ancestor of all Indo-European ...

From firelight whispers to the screens in our hands, language has carried us for hundreds of thousands of years. But did we just ...

Trace the history and evolution of the Spanish language, from its origins in the 3rd century BCE to modern day. -- Beginning in the ...

In this episode of the Airlearn Language Show, we travel back tens of thousands of years to explore one of humanity's greatest ...

View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/where-did-english-come-from-claire-bowern When we talk about 'English', we often ...

Close your eyes and begin a journey through time. Have you ever wondered when humans first spoke? What turned the ...

Science & Cocktails is excited to announce a new episode with Mark Pagel, Fellow of the Royal Society and Professor of ...

Check out our podcast Eons: Mysteries of Deep Time: http://ow.ly/2J4450Iu69U The evolution of our ability to speak is its own epic ...

Dan Everett brings us back in time to the Homo Erectus to share how language began and why it is the ultimate evolutionary tool ...

Tocharian is the ancient branch of Indo-European spoken in the Tarim Basin of modern China. This video traces the phonological ...