A new study reveals that wild chimpanzees combine vocal calls in structured ways to create new or more specific meanings, ...

Wild chimpanzees alter the meaning of single calls when embedding them into diverse call combinations, mirroring linguistic operations in human language. Human language, however, allows an infinite ...

After a decade-long fight, the state of Montana will now recognize Indigenous Peoples Day on the second Monday in October.

We’re learning a lot more about the new pope from those who know him well: family, friends and fellow missionaries.

Humans are the only species on Earth known to use language. They do this by combining sounds into words and words into ...

The language barrier has helped maintain an air of unreality around the papacy in the U.S. That is about to change.

Assembly of First Nations National Chief Cindy Woodhouse Nepinak, who had attended the funeral of Pope Francis as part of the ...

Inuit languages really do have many words for snow, linguists found—and other languages have conceptual specialties, too, ...

History was made at Silver Creek Central School District last month as the American Indian Youth Organization (AIYO) hosted ...

Yilan is a Japanese-based creole language that was developed from colonial interactions between the speakers of the ...

The commission was created in 1975 so Oregon’s nine federally recognized tribes could advise state officials and agencies on ...

In Native communities across the United States, we have always known: when you invest in women, you invest in whole nations.