Articles Containing Tag: language

When you hear the word Arabic, or something spoken in that language, you likely think of Middle Eastern deserts or Arab nations. That isn’t wrong – but it isn’t the whole picture. From coffee to cotton, algorithms to algebra, to… Read More

If you’ve been keeping up with Liberty Nation Gen Z’s language series, you probably already know English is a Germanic language, not a true child of Latin. But did you know that speakers of Old English wrote in runes rather… Read More

There’s an old saying: “All roads lead to Rome.” Today it’s figurative, meaning that there are many ways to achieve the same goal. In AD 1175, French theologian and poet Alain de Lille wrote: “Mille viae ducunt homines per saecula… Read More

Languages such as Sumerian, Aramaic, and Egyptian allowed civilizations to grow into kingdoms and even empires. Greek did that and more: It helped formalize thinking itself, becoming the foundation for how ideas are built, tested, and recorded for posterity. In… Read More

Sumerian and Cuneiform may have come first – by about 300 years – but if there’s an ancient language and writing system everyone has heard of, it’s Egyptian and Hieroglyphs. In fact, one could call Egyptian “the other first language.”… Read More

If Sumerian was the language of the first civilizations and Akkadian of the first empire, then Aramaic can best be described as the first worldwide language. It may not get quite the same amount of attention as Greek or Latin… Read More

The first fully developed writing system appeared in history along with the oldest known spoken language – but it lasted much longer. The earliest known language is Sumerian, and the wedge-like characters the Sumerian people scratched onto clay tablets were… Read More

What was the first language? The answer to that question is difficult at best and perhaps impossible at worst. But historians have some good guesses. We simply can’t know or really describe any spoken language before writing started – no… Read More

Welcome to LNGenZ’s round up of the week’s top news stories. Six Endangered Red Wolf Pups Born in Wildlife Refuge Will this litter of pups kickstart the recovery of this species? The red wolf (Canis rufus) is an endangered species,… Read More

When you think about the world around you, what is more important – facts or feelings? Do you listen more to your emotions or the logical part of your brain? Take a look at the following list of words. Which… Read More

“Because of language, man has access to the past and the future. He can express the true and the untrue. Language helps him understand both what is and what could be.” – Wesley Douglass Camp Language is a key part… Read More