According to the projections of The International Organization of La Francophone, the language of Molière will retain its status in the next half-century thanks to the demographic growth of Africa.

Speaking a second or even a third language can bring obvious advantages, but occasionally the words, grammar and even accents can get mixed up.

Geoffrey Khan is racing to document Aramaic, the language of Jesus, before its native speakers vanish

Machine learning algorithms help researchers identify speech patterns in children on the autism spectrum that are consistent between different languages.

Government officials must replace words such as ‘e-sports’ and ‘streaming’ with approved French versions

Essentially, it looks as if the glasses will transcribe speech in real time and display them as subtitles.

In a city where diplomats and embassies abound, where interpreters can command six-figure salaries, where language proficiency is résumé rocket fuel, Vaughn Smith was a savant with a secret.

I have a friend who speaks only in trite, pithy statements — “What goes around comes around.” “You should really think outside the box.” “Maybe you woke up on the wrong side of the bed.” No? “Then it feels like a perfect storm.” God, they’re “such a cliché.”

Canines in the study could differentiate between Spanish, Hungarian and nonsense words

While imprisoned for being a “reactionary,” physicist and engineer Zhi Bingyi began devising a system to help computing machines read Chinese characters.

Geographically, Spain's Val d'Aran should be part of France, but it's neither French, Spanish nor Catalan in culture, history or even language.

Speaking "baby talk" to infants not only helps parents and caregivers connect with the young ones in their charge, but it may also help babies learn to make words, a study published Friday by the journal Speech, Language and Hearing found. Mimicking the sound of a smaller vocal tract clues babies into how words should sound coming out of their own mouths, the researchers said.

Bilingual people engage the same brain region that monolingual individuals use to put together words—even when combining different languages

Los Angeles’s renamed Crypto.com Arena is good news for cryptocurrency fanatics but strikes a blow against the word’s original meaning

Australian musk ducks can imitate sounds including human speech, with one bird recorded repeatedly saying “you bloody fool”, according to a new study. The recording of the talking duck appears to be the first comprehensively documented instance of the species being able to mimic sounds they hear, joining other birds including songbirds, parrots and hummingbirds.

Dozens of traditional cultures use a whistled form of their native language for long-distance communication. You could, too.

Jeff Dean's appearance at TED comes during a time when critics are calling for greater scrutiny over big tech's control over the world's AI systems.

In our daily lives, we spend a lot more time tapping at a screen and typing on a keyboard than writing with pencil and pen, so does handwriting tuition still offer anything useful? Absolutely, according to a new study.

The north-east Arnhem Land school ignored a government order to teach only in English for the first four hours of each day. Now, educators say the school's "both ways" approach using Indigenous language language and English in the classroom is yielding results.