Reddit doesn't have the best reputation. Between the sexism, racism, and general harassment levied by and toward users daily, the internet's "front page" might also be its most toxic.

The English word "Earth", German "Erde", Swedish "jorden", and similar expressions in other Germanic languages come from Proto-Germanic *erþō, which meant, well, "earth". They are shown in brown

It is fascinating to wonder how these effects might play out in the real world, particularly in international politics. By Christian Jarrett

Blissymbols was invented by Charles K. Bliss (1897–1985). He wanted to create an easy-to-learn international auxiliary language to allow communication between different linguistic communities. He was inspired by Chinese characters, to create a language that is purely written.

Having teased you several times with words that are older than you think, we thought we’d turn the tables and look at some that have a surprisingly brief history. Of course, older information may turn up to provide antedatings – but, as things stand, these words have entered the English language later than you might have thought.

Underwater languages at the brink of extinction. By Ed Ou, Carrie Haber, John Ford, with guests.

Lithuanian, the most conservative of all Indo-European languages, is riddled with references to bees.

This piece of pseudo-profanity is what's known as a taboo deformation—a word we say when we don't want to say the word.

Nomadic horse riders likely opened a “steppe bridge” between Europe and Asia, but recent genetic data raise more questions. By Roni Jacobson.

Until the Renaissance, the English language had no word for yellow-red.

Iceland’s mother tongue and cultural identity is drowning in an online ocean of English

A significant number of gestures made by chimps and bonobos mean the same thing.

In the age of mobile phones, the remaining "speakers" of a dying whistling language try to preserve a vital means of communication over vast distances.

A group of Maine dairy delivery drivers will receive $5 million in a proposed settlement for unpaid overtime, according to court records filed on Thursday.

On a small Greek island, practitioners of an ancient whistling language are holding onto their culture as it slowly dies out.

Straightforwardness is so intrinsic in Dutch society that there’s even a Dutch word for it: 'bespreekbaarheid' (speakability) – that everything can and should be talked about.

The program uses state-of-the-art AI techniques, but simple tests show that it's a long way from real understanding.

A bench warrant was issued for the arrest of a University of Hawaii professor on Wednesday.

YouTuber Austin McConnell, a man who knows words, humorously explained through animation the fascinating history of ten different letters that are no longe

Toward a grand unified theory of hilarious and odd foreign-language menus.