Language is one of the most resilient components of culture. Though many languages have disappeared over the course of ...

Ancient written languages emerged as a revolutionary development in human history, allowing civilizations to record important ...

It might be where the language itself originated, but oddly enough, English isn't the official language of the United Kingdom. In fact, the UK has no official language at all. Instead, English only ...

There are roughly 7,000 languages spoken around the world. Indigenous groups speak more than 4,000 of them, despite making up less than 6 percent of the global population. These languages often hold ...

What’s fascinating in 2025 is how migration, technology, and pop culture change language spread. Technology is also creating digital dialects and internet slang, with millions blending languages or ...

Thousands of languages are facing extinction, and researchers are turning to artificial intelligence to preserve and revitalize them. Can this technology save endangered languages before it’s too late ...

Tom has a Master's degree in Journalism. His editorial work covers anything from archaeology and the environment to technology and culture. Tom has a Master's degree in Journalism. His editorial work ...

Despite advances in multilingual modeling, most language AI systems remain anchored in English. Earlier generations, such as GPT-3, drew over 90% of their pretraining data from English sources, and ...

KOSOVO - According to the U.S. Census Bureau, 21 percent of people in the United States of America speak another language, other than English, at home. While 78 percent of Americans speak only one ...

Loved ones to Covid-19. Homes to forest fires. Clean air to climate change. The past year has stolen much of what sustains us. But we’re in danger of another devastating loss, just under the surface.