According to Ethnologue, there are more than 7,000 languages in the world, with some being more difficult to learn than others. And if you're perhaps a polyglot or linguaphile looking for a new ...

The world’s filthiest words typically refer to something vulgar or taboo, for one. But there’s something else swears across the world’s languages have in common.

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America’s State Department places the languages it teaches diplomats into four categories (see chart), with estimates of how long they take to learn them ranging from 24 to 88 weeks.

The Icon of the Seas, the world's largest cruise ship, sits docked after arriving to its home port in Miami, Wednesday, Jan. 10, 2024. Rebecca Blackwell / AP ...

The world’s languages were not a babel but a brotherhood. “Proto”, a new book by Laura Spinney, a journalist who has written for this newspaper, offers a biography of that brotherhood—or ...

The Department of World Languages and Literatures offers a program of graduate study leading to the degree of Master of Arts in World Languages and Literatures, with specializations in French and ...

In this article, we will take a look at the 30 most spoken languages in the world in 2050. If you would like to skip our discussion on the global language trends, you can go to the 5 Most Spoken ...

But that’s only eight out of nearly 6,000 languages around the world. Monojit Choudhury, principal data and applied scientist at Microsoft’s Turing India, started research on Project Ellora with ...

Swear words lack the consonant sounds l, r, w and y across several languages – including Chinese, English and Spanish, according to a new study from researchers at Royal Holloway, University of ...