Languages are a hot topic as of late. In fact, the world’s newest dialect has just been banned. Afrikaans, the tongue in question, has been used in South Africa for three centuries, but wasn’t ...

How many languages are there in the world? There are about 6,800 languages currently spoken in the world, according to Douglas Whalen, president of the Endangered Language Fund. But that number is ...

Africa is a multilingual continent and many adults speak several languages fluently. An empirical study by a psycholinguist now shows that the roots of this multilingualism can be found in infancy: In ...

Subway passengers enter the Roosevelt Avenue station, Tuesday, December 18, 2018, in Jackson Heights, New York. It is considered one of the most diverse communities in the United States, with more ...

Q: If a newborn child grows up hearing people speaking in many different languages, will it later be able to speak all those languages? -- Puneesh T., India A: Children learn languages from the people ...