It’s been more than 15 years since the last Harry Potter book hit shelves, yet we’re still enthralled with its magical world.

Wild chimpanzees alter the meaning of single calls when embedding them into diverse call combinations, mirroring linguistic operations in human language. Human language, however, allows an infinite ...

Humans are the only species on Earth known to use language. They do this by combining sounds into words and words into ...

Inuit languages really do have many words for snow, linguists found—and other languages have conceptual specialties, too, ...

President Donald Trump signed an executive order to make English the national language of the United States. The order ...

In Enough is Enuf, writer Gabe Henry wittily and engagingly confronts all of these questions head-on and arrives at a surprising answer: We actually have tried, on many occasions across numerous ...

John Candy's insanely stacked resume of classic '80s comedies has given us a lot of hysterical lines that are still quoted ...

Does knowing a language mean knowing a lot of words, or how to speak it properly? The answer largely depends on your goals.

Scientists discovered that speech melodies carry meaning like words. This could teach AI to understand emotions in ...

I did it in English, his native language, the language we’d bonded through — my second language. While writing about him, I embraced English to convey some sense of meaning, of hope.

A former Sussex Police officer has been banned after he used racist language towards an officer while they were on holiday. Jack Nicholson, based in Brighton, was the subject of a misconduct which ...