I wrote recently from Bosnia and Herzegovina about the curious practice of taking a unitary language and trying to find ways of representing it as several different languages for political reasons, in ...

Learning numbers in a European language has probably affected your early maths ability. It turns out there are better ways to count. If I asked you to write down the number “ninety-two”, you wouldn’t ...

As the world shrinks through political and economic integration, David Clingingsmith, PhD, has raised an intriguing question: How many of the world’s 6,000 languages still will be spoken 100 years ...