Words from the Isle of Man for a traditional open-hearth fireplace, an outside toilet and friendly conversation or chat are ...

The real debate isn’t whether internet slang counts as “proper English”, but which words get preserved and which are left to vanish, says NUS Centre for Language Studies’ Daniel Chan.

Merriam-Webster announced Thursday it has taken the rare step of fully revising and reimagining one of its most popular ...

"Just how far removed we had already become from Britain even in the nineteenth century was not well understood in the mother country," begins an essay in the first pages of the Canadian Oxford ...

The Aboriginal language Miriwoong is one of the oldest languages on Earth, but fewer than 10 people speak it fluently. Miriwoong is considered critically endangered — on the brink of completely ...

Sign Language Studies, Vol. 3, No. 4, Special Issue on Dictionaries and Lexicography, Part 2: The Development of National Sign Language Dictionaries (Summer 2003), pp. 431-468 (38 pages) The issue of ...

The first dictionaries of the country's myriad ethnic languages without native written forms are rolling off the presses. As the foundations of the Middle Kingdom's Tower of Babel weaken, the ...

To mark its centenary, YIVO stages a work about the competing visions for a monumental, and aborted, reference work about the ...

Gija elder Shirley Purdie likes the naughty words in her ancient language. She admits they can be used to keep misbehaving children in line. ''Funny sort of words … a bit sweary … that say, 'you're no ...

For the survival of hundreds of years of aesthetic beauty hidden in the Urdu language, it is important that Pakistanis and other Urdu speakers have a serious discussion about how they want to treat ...