b, %, #, top ten More than six billion nine hundred ninety-nine thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine other people than ...
Languages were spoken before they were written. Archeology can thus not solve everything. Etymology and maths hopefully help out too.
Boustrophedon writing: an ancient, backwards way
Latin expression in boustrophedon Boustrophedon writing is a technique that consists in not starting every line over ...
The hardest language to learn depends a lot on who is learning
In French, you say C'est du chinois (litterally, 'It's Chinese') when you want to express how much what you've heard or ...
Language families: deep roots into our past
I firmly believe that at the beginning were several Babel towers. I trust our human ancestors for having invented ...
History of languages: from Argh to Zillions of languages
Many thousands of years ago, on a bright Wednesday afternoon, we, little humans, have started uttering mumbles, grunts ...