The way we talk about war has changed

Can endangered languages be saved? This new book may have the answer.

Catalan separatists want university classes taught in the local language. Spanish academics resist the change. 

Libyan pop star Bahjat beat the odds. Now he wants to popularize ‘A-pop.’

‘It’s never too late’: How learning Finnish taught me to embrace vulnerability 

Udi, a dying language with its own alphabet, sees a revival in this small Georgian town

A Yiddish revival is underway at this prestigious Chinese university

Georgia’s proxy war with Russia has linguistic ripple effects

‘Memory speaks’: How to reclaim your mother tongue without having to relearn it from scratch

Learning through singing: This artist wants you to teach her a song in your native language

The tiny but mighty hyphen: Does it unite or divide?

From Argentina to US to Spain: A personal history told through childhood audio diaries

Vaccine envy? There’s a German word for that.

This group in Japan is on a mission to correct English mistranslations

Finland’s national word ‘sisu’ conjures new meanings for tough times

Who Does the Acronym “BIPOC” Actually Serve? 2020-06-25

Damn coronavirus! How the Dutch use diseases as curse words.

Why are so many languages spoken in some places and so few in others?

Baby dolphins babble when they learn language, just like humans do

A Danish word the world needs to combat stress: Pyt

When an American says ‘sure’ to a Brit, does it mean yes or no?

This poetry detective tracks down word thieves. But are they all plagiarists?

The time of day when I used to think a dog could turn into a wolf

This is your brain on improv

Why we are so drawn to the letter ‘X’

Olivier Had it Wrong: Shakespeare’s Original Pronunciation

Fancy a British Accent?

The Flame Alphabet

The three-letter word that rocked a nation

New findings explore the universality of music, features that are recognizable across cultures

FCC Commissioner: The Internet Shouldn’t Be a ‘Partisan Pinball’

France has plunged into a struggle over gender-neutral language

Jennifer Kronovet studied Yiddish so she could communicate with the dead

Kazakhstan’s switch from Cyrillic to Latin is about more than just alphabets

The science behind ‘baby talk’

A new digital platform in West Africa targets speakers of the Pidgin language

Mexican women lead initiatives to rescue native tongues

Which version of Indian history do American school students learn?

Language versus dialect, or why we’re obsessed with Elena Ferrante

He’s lived in small towns across America — and it makes him look for pieces of home

What it was like to produce the Clinton and Trump debate live en Español

Sing to me in Vietnamese: A daughter learns the language of her refugee parents through song

Balalaikas and banyas: An average summer at Russian language camp

There’s a Tibetan dialect called ‘Mustang,’ and it’s staying alive in the US

Hollywood loves Cape Town. But you’d better nail that American accent.

Learn Arabic in just 25 years

What it’s like to return to Mexico, from the perspectives of three kids who grew up north of the border

How gun culture permeates our everyday language

Most high schoolers worry about graduation. These students are also being challenged to save their culture

He may be hockey’s best broadcaster. He does it in Punjabi.

How we react to vocal fry in music depends on the gender of the singer

Succeeding at this high school means juggling multiple languages

Deciphering the mysterious encyclopedia known as the Codex Seraphinianus

He calls Yiddish a language of life — so translating Oscar-winner ‘Son of Saul’ was an especially dark experience

What if one culture shares multiple languages? That’s a challenge Oregon is taking up with its Somali students.

Why a lawyer wrote a legal brief partially in Klingon

How trade shaped an Amerindian Creole in the Pacific Northwest

Think you know how to pronounce Berlin, New Hampshire? Think again.

That emoji you sent might not mean what you think

A new documentary shows the surprising, circular journey of Japanese Brazilians