Ancient written languages emerged as a revolutionary development in human history, allowing civilizations to record important ...

If the phenomenon of spoken and written language, with its capacity for telling stories and conveying complex ideas, distinguishes humans from other animals, then what are we to make of writing ...

She meant that written Sinhalese preserves much of the way the language was a very long time ago, while spoken Sinhalese has been allowed to undergo normal processes of language change.

Poems will mix multiple languages in “The Latin Poet’s Guide to the Cosmos.” Susannah Rodríguez Drissi, a UCLA lecturer in Writing Programs, published her book in May.

Carol Musselman, Gabriella Szanto, The Written Language of Deaf Adolescents: Patterns of Performance, Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education, Vol. 3, No. 3, Special Issue on Literacy (Summer 1998) ...