Whether someone's speech is a language or a dialect is a matter of both linguistics and politics. illust-monster/iStock/Getty Images Plus In 2022, after the start of ...

Language feels simple when we use it. We talk, we text, we listen, and words seem to appear naturally from thought. But the ...

I don't believe that in the Caribbean we are any different from other people with regard to modifying the languages we adopted from other parts of the world with local variations of standard terms as ...

File photo: A protester holds a placard that reads 'Together to Victory' during a rally to show unity and support of Ukrainian integrity in the southern Ukrainian city of Odessa. | Oleksandr Gimanov / ...

Plato's dialogue Cratylus begins with a debate. Socrates is asked whether the sounds of words are simply arbitrary conventions, as Hermogenes suggests, or if sounds are reflective in some way of their ...

Since the start of the war in Ukraine, the number of people studying Ukrainian on Duolingo, a language learning website and mobile app, has increased by more than 500%. Most of those who are taking up ...