In a Lingua Franca post a few weeks ago, I needed to use the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) to represent the different pronunciations of the English word People still talk about speech sounds ...

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The parchments discovered in the Judean Desert's Cave of Letters were written in two languages, Aramaic and Greek. Scientists who study language, known as linguists, can communicate about different ...

Scientists studying sperm whales have discovered that they communicate through a sort of “phonetic alphabet”, enabling them to build a rough equivalent of what humans refer to as words and phrases.

Whether you're effected by Hurricane Sandy or not, bad reception is never something you want to mess around with. Reddit user psychuil points to the official phonetic alphabet as a great means to ...

Germany is restoring Jewish names that Nazis stripped from its phonetic alphabet more than 75 years ago. Adolf Hitler changed the alphabet in 1934, a year after he ascended to power — subbing, for ...

The various species of whales inhabiting Earth’s oceans employ different types of vocalizations to communicate. Sperm whales, the largest of the toothed whales, communicate using bursts of clicking ...