It’s well established that children have an easier time learning second languages. In recent years, scientists have studied ...

If language is what makes us human, what does it mean now that large language models have gained “metalinguistic” abilities?

The dictionary publisher's annual pick, based on spikes in search data, reflects the themes and anxieties that shaped 2025.

For many African languages there are few written resources online that can be used to train AI. The African Next Voices project is trying to change that by recording underrepresented languages and ...

With 'ragebait' the Oxford English Dictionary word of the year, here's a look at what footballing equivalents might have been since 2000 ...

Language is the core tool humans use to share ideas, emotions, and culture. Linguists group individual languages into “families” based on shared ancestry, similar to a family tree. According to the ...

Language is a funny thing. On the one hand, it unites us as humans, being the only animals with the ability to speak in such a complex way. On the other hand, people are very divided due to language, ...

We noted that Excel turned 40 this year. That makes it seem old, and today, if you say “spreadsheet,” there’s a good chance ...

Merriam-Webster has settled on a word that represents 2025 — and that word is “slop.” The dictionary-maker defines “slop” as ...

Words reflecting diversity language have appeared less frequently in grants awarded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) since the 2024 US presidential election, with a 25% relative decrease ...

As 2025 comes to a close, Merriam-Webster is marking an annual tradition. On Dec. 15, the leading expert in language announced that “slop” had earned the title of word of the year for 2025.

“We don't really know at what point Celtic emerged. The earliest extant texts in a Celtic language date from the early sixth ...