Noticias

An anthropologist compiles the Colombian language Ette in a dictionary - 01/08/2016

The anthropologist Juan Camilo Niño has recovered, in a dictionary of 732 pages, the language of the Ettes, a community of the north of Colombia in danger of disappearing.

Bilingualism reduces brain damage after a stroke, according to an Indian study - 01/04/2016

Bilingual patients are twice as likely as those who speak one language to have normal cognitive functions after a stroke, according to a study carried out in India.

When adults, learning words activates brain reward circuits - 12/22/2015

Learning new words activates the brain reward circuits of human adults, according to a Spanish-German study, which studies the emotional impact of process of learning new languages. Before, it was believed that language acquisition was limited to childhood.

Mexico rewards the narrations written in indigenous languages of 50 children - 12/14/2015

The Government of Mexico rewarded, some weeks ago, 50 student of fifth and sixth of primary education, winners of the 16th National Contest Narrations of Indigenous Girls and Boys and Migrants, in which 743 children who wrote stories in their native language participated.

An algorithm may automatize the translation of Mayan texts - 12/09/2015

An algorithm developed at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL) will be able to automatize the interpretation of Mayan texts, of which 15% of the symbols are still unknown, although more than five million people speak this language. The objective is to create an online database for archaeologists and epigraphers.