Bringing with them the languages of their homelands, immigrants newly arrived by ship at Ellis Island await official processing and approval to reach their destination—New York City, already in sight.

Learning new languages physically changes your brain and increases your cognitive abilities. But what really happens in the brain, and does speaking many languages ...

English and Spanish are the most common languages spoken in the U.S. but where do the rest rank? Newsweek has mapped tongues from other motherlands, and German comes third. In total, 13 states speak ...

Over the past few weeks, we've been discussing programming language popularity here on ZDNET. Most recently, I aggregated data from nine different rankings to produce the ZDNET Index of Programming ...

India boasts immense linguistic diversity, with thousands of languages spoken across its vast expanse. Among these, a few are notable for their large number of native speakers. These ten languages ...

Google announced today that it has added support for 110 new languages to Google Translate, nearly doubling the number of languages that can be translated. The company used the PaLM 2 large language ...

Google said today that it is adding support for 110 languages to its translation service. The company has used its PaLM 2 AI model to power translations. These languages include Afar, Cantonese, Manx, ...

As hybrid languages proliferate around the world, Euronews Culture has been talking in tongues around some of the most popular combinations in Europe. A recent study of the US Latinx community found ...

Every year, Ethnologue mines the data on more than 7000 languages to see which ones are most popular across the globe. Read on to find out if your native language topped the 2023 list (and learn a fun ...

Listen to one end of a phone conversation, and you’ll probably hear a rattle of ah’s, um’s and mm-hm’s. Our speech is brimming with these fillers, yet linguistic researchers haven’t paid much ...

Technology is accelerating the rate of language disappearance, even while it offers the hope of preserving those that are endangered or extinct. A new crowd-sourcing platform aims to preserve the ...