Lingua

After moving abroad, I found my English slowly eroding. It turns out our first languages aren’t as embedded as we think.

To me, a maleta meant family had arrived from Peru, carrying flavors, textures and memories of my birthplace.

A linguistics professor found that even Miamians who aren’t fluent in Spanish use or understand phrases that are direct…

Spanish has been influenced heavily and has many cognates, and one of the languages that Spanish has been shaped by is Arabic.

With so few words, most of them kid-friendly, it should be a piece of cake. But it depends on who’s holding the whisk.

The Times convened five notable translators who bring literature from other languages into English, and asked them about the joys…

Documents aimed at helping Alaska Natives apply for federal aid to repair typhoon damage featured nonsensical phrases instead of…

After being nearly silenced, Manx is experiencing a revival on the Isle of Man, thanks in part to an elementary school and some…

It took a while for Australians to appreciate their linguistic distinctiveness. The editors at the Australian National Dictionary…

When a French dictionary included the gender-nonspecific “iel” for the first time, a virulent reaction erupted over “wokisme”…

-ISH Meaning: "of the nativity or country of," in later use "of the nature or character of," from Proto-Germanic… See definitions…

With half of the nation’s native languages extinct, these women are dedicating their lives to preserving theirs.

His monumental dictionary, after years of fieldwork, documented Tzotzil in southern Mexico. But that was just the start of his…