There’s a crisis unfolding in the field of linguistics: Global language experts estimate that, without intervention, about one language will be lost every month for the next 40 years. A study ...

What shapes the structure of languages? In a new study, an international team of researchers reports that grammatical structure is highly flexible across languages, shaped by common ancestry, ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. The Department of Management at LSE. In a Doha high-rise, a Pakistani project manager asks her Dutch colleague for help crafting a ...

Language is more than just a way of communication - it’s a mirror of history, migration, and culture. While many countries are known for one or two dominant languages, some nations stand out for their ...

Richness in numerical terms is not matched with the digital presence of Indian languages; they still form a very small part ...

Mr. Perlin, a co-director of the Endangered Language Alliance, has been researching linguistic diversity and language endangerment since 2006. He is the author of “Language City: The Fight to Preserve ...

Linguists have long been interested in language variation. What are common or universal patterns across languages? What limits the possible variation between them? Grambank, the world's largest and ...