What is the oldest language in the world? Well, it depends. Scholars debate how to determine when a language began: when it was written, or spoken?

What is the most spoken language in the world? The answer differs based on whether you count all speakers or just native speakers.

What is sign language? Before we answer that question, it might be useful to first consider what a “language” is. Spoken languages are naturally developed complex systems that use a set of ...

In "What Language Is" I try to show that all languages worldwide are messy and always changing, and that we should enjoy that instead of hoping language can ever be as cleanly logical as mathematics.

Humans have been speaking thousands of years longer than they have been writing. Yet many assume the written word is superior to the way we speak. In What Language Is: And What It Isn't And What ...

This common condition affects children’s spoken language development, but similarity to other disorders makes it hard to detect.

Inclusive language has been identified as “one of the tools” of gender ideology, a school of thought that has been repeatedly criticized by the Catholic Church.

Natural language processing is a ubiquitous form of AI technology.