Linguistics

Perhaps the biggest effect A.I. will have on our lives is in giving us a new way to entertain ourselves.

States worry that the imposition of Hindi, the main language of northern India, would wipe out their cultural heritage.

Adam Aleksic, who posts as Etymology Nerd on social media, argues in a new book that algorithms are reshaping the English language.

Why not just say what we mean?

Simona Rodano barely has time to strap on her sparkly wings before she dashes around New York City, teaching children how to sing in Italian, French and Spanish.

The way that human adults talk to young children is unique among primates, a new study found. That might be one secret to our species’ grasp of language.

Adrenaline rising? Patience waning? Gen Z embraces a slang term for familiar feelings.

A former archbishop of Canterbury on reclaiming the human world through compassion and absolution.

The word’s strange history has a lot to tell us about how language evolves.

A.I.’s takeover of jobs may come first for computer science.

Opera’s greatest composers wanted us to understand the words. English, please!

Mr. Ngugi composed the first modern novel in the Gikuyu language on prison toilet paper while being held by Kenyan authorities. He spent many prolific years in exile.

An extraordinary author-translator collaboration produced a book, “Heart Lamp,” that was lauded for enriching the English language.

Sometimes change comes not in the form of a new word but in the form of an “uh.”

Pope Leo’s fluency in English, Spanish and Italian will help him govern the global church — and the Vatican.

Just don’t ask it about “white genocide.”

The U.S. is slashing funding for scientific research, after decades of deep investment. Here’s some of what those taxpayer dollars created.

Signaling tastes in a time of polarized politics.

The first U.S.-born pope has dual citizenship with Peru and speaks at least three languages.

In a memoir that tries to wrest control of her story, Ms. Baldwin says she was “canceled” via online sleuths who looked for inconsistencies in her Spanish accent.

Una campaña para cambiar el nombre de las calles y retirar estatuas asociadas a la Rusia imperial está dividiendo a Odesa, cuya identidad está ligada a su historia.

A push to rename streets and remove statues associated with imperial Russia is dividing Odesa, whose identity is tied up in its history.

Empathy without ethics isn’t virtuous. It’s manipulative. And it’s starting to feel all too commonplace.

Aparentemente, añadir palabras a un chatbot puede costar decenas de millones de dólares. Pero algunos temen que el precio de no decir por favor o gracias podría ser mayor.

Writing in a second language can feel unnatural, but it presents a new way for writers to understand who they are —and how they fit into the world.

Adding words to our chatbot can apparently cost tens of millions of dollars. But some fear the cost of not saying please or thank you could be higher.

If there’s one thing we can agree on, it’s that we have many ways to agree.

For decades, the share of American Catholics declined in the face in secularization. But in recent years, those numbers have stabilized, buoyed by growing communities and broader societal changes.

Branden Kazen-Maddox makes time for mud massages, meditation and aerial hoop adventures.

Hundreds of hours of recordings suggest that the apes can generate meaning by stringing sounds together in pairs. But some scholars are skeptical.