A century ago, an ornithologist proposed a system for transcribing bird sound as human speech. It did not catch on.

Free from Russian dictates over language usage and education, Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan prepare to embrace Latin lettering. It’s the latest chapter in the region’s fraught history of alphabet reform.

American language educator Max Kirch suggests that adopting the nonverbal habits of another culture gives one’s behavior a "foreign accent."

On September 27, 1822, the French philologist announced that he’d decrypted the key that would unlock Egypt’s ancient past.

No matter how many words in a language, it seems that we always need just one more to explain ourselves.

Soon after a team of engineers discovered a moth in a machine at Harvard, the word "bug" became a standard part of the programmer's lexicon. Or did it?

Through the lens of chronemics, we can examine why time appears to have a different essence at, well, different times.

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The first installment of a new column on living language: talking about COVID (talk)

The files of Paris police from the late nineteenth century reveal the tumultuous politics of the time through the graffiti recorded in them.