Researchers are hoping a remote Aboriginal community can help them unlock the secrets of language.

As the year winds down, we'll get you up to speed. Plus, there's no better way to kill a trend than to bring it up at the dinner table in front of your kids.

Get translation help on the go with the Assistant’s interpreter mode now on Android and iOS phones.

Dogs can recognise subtle differences in our language, even for unfamiliar voices, which we thought only humans could do

A society dedicated to preserving the correct use of the apostrophe has shut down because "ignorance has won".  Retired journalist John Richards, 96, started the Apostrophe Protection Society in 2001 to make sure the “much-abused” punctuation mark was being used correctly. But Mr Richards has now announced: “With regret I have to announce that, after some 18 years, I have decided to close the Apostrophe Protection Society.

Researchers say computer systems are learning from lots and lots of digitized books and news articles that could bake old attitudes into new technology.

As UNESCO brings urgent awareness to Indigenous languages this year, a linguist considers whether saving languages is sentimental or critical.

Book review: Linguistics in the Internet age charts a path from BBSes to T9 and beyond.

Linguist and Because Internet author Gretchen McCulloch asked her Twitter followers to share the words that they can’t actually spell without relying on spellcheck. The answers she got will comfort and edify you....

Backpfeifengesicht may join other German words that have found a place in English, like Weltschmerz (world-weariness) and Zeitgeist (spirit of the time).

There could be a simple way to help young children’s brains improve for the better, with long-lasting benefits.

No matter how quickly you speak, you still share the same amount of information

Researchers at the Allen Institute have hit an artificial-intelligence milestone: a machine that is ready for high school science. Maybe even college.

9. CRUMPSY: Short-tempered and irritable.

A close look at a strangely global idiom about how little we understand each other.

Some languages that have never been deciphered could be the next ones to get the machine translation treatment.

Spelling contests have remained a feature in American life since the Puritans landed on Plymouth Rock — but is peaking at 12 years old all it’s cracked up to be?

The fully approved translators and interpreters are providing the translation services in the technical field.

An AI program developed by Alibaba has notched up a record-high score on a reading comprehension test.

By Emma Young. Getting better at a new language doesn’t have to mean hard hours on lists of vocab and the rules of grammar.