Language is an essential part of human communication, allowing people to express ideas, emotions, imagination and much more. But even while speaking the same language, no two people sound exactly ...

Seven million years ago, the first ancestors of the human lineage appeared on Earth. Did they already have an established language that allowed them to communicate then? No doubt. However, impossible, ...

Corrections & clarifications: An earlier version of this story contained inaccurate or incomplete facts about the history of language. Language is an essential part of human communication, allowing ...