As Mandarin becomes increasingly favored both in China and the Bay Area, Cantonese defenders are grappling with threats to ...

Minnesota is home to a high degree of linguistic diversity, with dozens of languages represented in the St. Cloud area.

Nor should you assume your ancestors spoke a generic version of any language. There were variations in the basic language depending on the area your ancestors came from. People in Sicily didn’t speak ...

Computers need programming languages to function. That’s just a simple fact of life. However, these languages didn’t just ...

Featuring Passamaquoddy/Maliseet artwork and pronunciation guides, the interpretive signs installed throughout Riverfront ...

The redesign of the Western Range of the British Museum, announced earlier this year, is the latest stage of a 272-year-long ...

An author I enjoy reading is Simon Winchester. One of his books, “The Professor and the Madman,” is about the origination of ...

When I was young it crossed my mind to wonder what the purpose of life was, so, thinking that it might help, I bought a copy of Bertrand Russell’s A History of Western Philosophy. Not only that, I ...

Public schools across the country are directing teachers to use curriculum resources from a nonprofit that teaches American history through the lens of racial and sexual oppression.

Skrilla's viral "6-7" meme from "Doot Doot" becomes Dictionary.com's 2025 Word of the Year, igniting debate over numbers qualifying as words.

It wouldn't be spooky season without ghosts. But they weren't always the evil spirits we see in books and movies today. For ...

Speakers of Hñähñu, an Indigenous language from what is now Mexico, are banding together to preserve their culture.