Language helps define the way people think about themselves and their culture. It does so by shaping the way we think, feel ...

While supporters frame this as a step toward linguistic inclusion and modernisation, critics see it as unnecessarily changing ...

The relationship between language and ethnic identity has long occupied a central place in social, cultural and political thought. It is a relationship that is at once intimate and complex – uniting ...

Editor’s note: This personal essay was written following a Twitter campaign organized by Global Voices sub-Saharan Africa and Rising Voices where each week, a different language activist shared their ...

Author Matt Greene on his new dystopian novel 'The Definitions' about life after a virus wipes people's memories.

A new study suggests that the language a bilingual person speaks can affect their physical sensations, depending on the cultural association tied to each vernacular. We take for granted the fact that ...

Inside a Barcelona film studio, a technician cues up a scene from the movie Prisoners, showing Jake Gyllenhaal's latest car chase. Then a local actor — albeit one who's slightly older, balder and ...

English has become a link language in the real sense of the term. In India it's slowly becoming the language of communication for the classes and the masses in various corporate offices, MNCs, ...