A few millennia ago, people worldwide may have spoken or signed up to 10 times as many languages as they do today.

During a lost ‘golden age’ of language, humans may have spoken tens of thousands of different tongues, a new study suggests ...

An Italian singer's 1972 hit song sounds like fluent English but is actually complete gibberish, and it topped the charts.

Rep. Brandon Gill spoke with Tony Kinnett, host where congressional hearings came up, but also what he's done “to save the ...

Words like ”dude,” “man,” “bro,” and “brah” are popular and powerful signals of solidarity, writes Valerie Fridland.

Across Africa, millions of children grow up speaking African languages at home but are later expected to learn through ...

Mostafa, an Iranian-born activist living in the U.S., uses ChatGPT in Farsi to help him polish his posts about the Iran War.

The problem with social impacts is they can be transitory and soon disappear without deliberate efforts and strategies to sustain them.

Listen to the The Conversation’s Curious Kids podcast to hear anthropologist April Nowell explain the origins of language.

A lot of high school students load up on Advanced Placement courses to strengthen their college applications. But for many California students classified as English learners, access to even the basic ...

As generative artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly used in translation, questions have been raised about whether it ...