April 4, 2008 • 48m
What precisely is language, and how did humans acquire it? In an effort to answer those essential questions, this program journeys...Read more
April 11, 2008 • 48m
In this program, John McWhorter, author of The Power of Babel: A Natural History of Language; Lyle Campbell, of the University of ...Read more
April 18, 2008 • 48m
This program travels the globe as it surveys a large portion of the worlds languages—25 percent of which are spoken by a mere 0.1 ...Read more
April 25, 2008 • 48m
Writing is a relative latecomer to the history of language. This program tracks its emergence in Mesopotamia, China, and Mesoameri...Read more
May 2, 2008 • 48m
It is predicted that within a century more than half of the worlds languages will become extinct, but as languages are lost, new o...Read more