As Mandarin becomes increasingly favored both in China and the Bay Area, Cantonese defenders are grappling with threats to ...

Language is like a living organism, it changes, grow, and evolves over time. And yet, a few words from times long past have ...

The relationship between language and ethnic identity has long occupied a central place in social, cultural and political ...

When Yoshinobu Yamamoto signed his historic 12-year, $325 million contract with the Los Angeles Dodgers, he became the ...

An author I enjoy reading is Simon Winchester. One of his books, “The Professor and the Madman,” is about the origination of ...

It wouldn't be spooky season without ghosts. But they weren't always the evil spirits we see in books and movies today. For ...

Minnesota is home to a high degree of linguistic diversity, with dozens of languages represented in the St. Cloud area.

An underdog story of faith and resilience — the first English-language Sikh superhero movie takes its next step toward global ...

Nor should you assume your ancestors spoke a generic version of any language. There were variations in the basic language depending on the area your ancestors came from. People in Sicily didn’t speak ...

This video explores the Battle of Hastings through a Google Earth reconstruction, showing how the clash between William of Normandy and King Harold in 1066 reshaped English history. By following troop ...

These old English words have been around since before people started writing history. They remind us where our language came from and show how words can last through time while the world keeps ...

Speakers of Hñähñu, an Indigenous language from what is now Mexico, are banding together to preserve their culture.