We’ve written before about the ways linguists reconstruct the long-extinct ancestors from which modern languages have evolved. This sort of methodology has been used in attempts to trace the roots of many language… Read more »

While Quechua is the most widely spoken autochthonous language in Peru, with millions of speakers also in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, and Ecuador, its longevity has long been in… Read more »

There may be no bookstores in the future, perhaps no books at all, or perhaps just books full of emojis (Britain’s fastest growing language). But you can bet that the English language… Read more »

This one goes out to all the players of certamen, decliners of nouns, and convention-goers of the mid-state NCJL (that’s the National Junior Classical League, for the uninitiated) out there. Yep,… Read more »

Two decades after the Académie Française released new guidelines on the use of one of the quirkier diacritical marks in the French language—the circumflex—public outrage has erupted. The Guardian’s Kim… Read more »

Linguists generally believe that words can’t survive for more than 8,000 to 9,000 years, but a new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences shows that… Read more »