A study on Indo-European languages, using direct linguistic data, reconciles the two dominant hypotheses of where and how ...

After all, it was a language not spoken in the power centers even in England. Their foreign overlords, the Norman, imposed their borrowed French on all aspects of the realm even as English remained ...

New data released from the Census Bureau’s American Community Survey (ACS) has revealed that one-fifth of US citizens don’t ...

Arabic is spoken by more than 400 million people. Can you recognise these Arabic words that made their way into English?

In 1956 a Sri Lankan politician riding a great surge of populism, made a move that, at a stroke, disabled a functioning civil society operating in the English language medium in Sri Lanka. He had ...

A wife in the West Bank city of Nablus grieves her husband who was shot and killed by Israeli soldiers after he appeared to surrender. An Israeli human rights group weighs in.