Around 1,500 endangered and rare languages are at a high risk of being lost in the next century, according to a study of thousands of spoken languages. The study, published on Thursday in Nature ...

A study on Indo-European languages, using direct linguistic data, reconciles the two dominant hypotheses of where and how ...

People across the world describe their thoughts and emotions, share experiences and spread ideas through the use of thousands of distinct languages. These languages form a fundamental part of our ...

At a time when social media users, for no particularly good reason, are trading in fully formed words for abbreviations ("defs" instead of "definitely"), it may seem that some languages are under ...

We ran a piece last year summarizing an IEEE study of programming-language popularity based on job listings. This article fostered conversation, including debates about whether the languages IEEE used ...

Some people can speak a seemingly impossible number of tongues. How do they manage it, asks David Robson, and what can we learn from them? Best of 2015 Our top stories This is part of BBC Future’s ...