Across the world’s languages, nouns are surprisingly chameleonic creatures, shape-shifting and category-hopping in ways that ...

Of course, it's impossible to provide an exact number of words in English, since new words are being added to the dictionary, and falling out of use, pretty much constantly. But what's an ...

Researchers have found that languages around the world have words for 'this' and 'that'. The 45-strong international team studied 29 languages from around the world including English, Spanish ...

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The top 20 languages for “snow” included several other languages of Alaska, such as Ahtena, Dena’ina and Central Alaskan Yupik, as well as Japanese and Scots.

Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers, for instance, is fairly easy to say, but if you mix in two slightly different ...

The languages included in the study, categorized by the number of different spatial demonstrative terms they use. Image credit: Coventry et al., Nature Human Behavior, 2023 ( CC BY 4.0 ...

Not all hackneyed language comes in full phrases; some single words also qualify. How they catch on remains a bit of a mystery, but catch on they do. “Incredible,” you might say.

There’s a term for this decline in native language proficiency: first language attrition.The isolation from other speakers causes first language comprehension and production skills to deteriorate, ...

Researchers have found that languages around the world have words for ‘this’ and ‘that’. The 45-strong international team studied 29 languages from around the world including English ...