Linguistics is one of the degrees most often dragged through the mud for being "useless," but The Lord of the Rings, one of the highest-grossing franchises of all time, might not have been possible, ...

The most influential language on the planet is English, as you could probably guess. But why? Chinese has the most native speakers worldwide. A new interactive graphic from researchers at MIT Media ...

Subatomic particles streaming from the Earth’s interior carry important evidence of the planet’s origins. As children, many of us played at the possibility of digging a hole so deep it could reach the ...

David J. Peterson invents fake languages for a living. His most well-known creations to date include Dothraki and Valyrian on Game of Thrones, Trigedasleng on The 100, the demonic Verbis Diablo on ...

Indigenous peoples speak more than 4,000 of the world’s 7,000-odd languages. These native tongues function as so much more than a means of communication; they encode community histories, traditions, ...