In “Doctor Dolittle’s Delusion,” he argued that language is a biological system unique to humans, despite the widespread belief that it extended to other animals.

NPR's Eyder Peralta speaks with Esteban Touma, language expert from the app Babbel about 2025's most mispronounced words.

Acquiring the ability to speak fluent English has been a decades-long pursuit for many Japanese toiling to master the ...

Fresh Air's longtime language commentator Geoff Nunberg died Tuesday after a long illness. He was 75. Geoff was a regular contributor to Fresh Air since 1987, when we made the transition from a local ...

How do babies learn their parents’ language—or languages? Can they tell dialects apart? I visited Czech psycholinguist Nikola Paillereau’s Prague lab to learn more.

When David J. Peterson was an undergraduate student at UC Berkeley, he saw a flier advertising an Esperanto class. It was the first time he’d heard of such a thing as an invented language, but it ...

A smattering of Yiddish words has crept into the American vernacular: Non-Jews go for a nosh or schmooze over cocktails. Yet the language itself, once spoken by millions of Jews, is now in retreat.

TUSCALOOSA, Ala.— This offseason, the Southeastern Conference welcomed Texas and Oklahoma to a group that "Just Means More," and while the Longhorns have thrived against this highly touted competition ...