Nicholas Ostler, in his 2005 book Empires of the Word: A Language History of the World, observes that the great languages have generally been the languages of the greatest traders and, especially, ...

The author of Curandera, which has been longlisted for the 2025 Ondaatje Prize, on Nigerian folklore, writing about women of ...

The American Language Program’s Winter Conference focused on how use of the English language is evolving and its effects on ...

F. Scott Fitzgerald saw the dire patterns we are living through today. This is why “The Great Gatsby” still matters, writes ...

From ‘yippy’ to ‘a**-kissing,’ President Trump’s unique brand of language is rewriting the rulebook on what it means to be presidential ...

The National Weather Service has halted its automated translation services for weather alerts until further notice "due to a ...

Niger's military-led government has officially declared Hausa as the country’s new national language, marking a significant break from its colonial history by replacing French.

Amid ongoing debates on multilingualism, a look at George Grierson’s First Linguistic Survey of India that identified over ...

An executive order signed by President Trump making English the official language of the U.S. has immigrant advocates worried the move risks real harm for people with limited English proficiency.

A teenager suffering from an extremely rare brain syndrome underwent routine knee surgery and mysteriously woke up speaking a ...

Ocracoke, located about 20 miles off the mainland of North Carolina, is home to the Hoi Toider (or high tide) brogue, a ...

Meriwether Lewis and William Clark and their forty-three fellow explorers headed west up the Missouri River, bound for the west coast. As they met a succession of different Native ...