Many of us native English speakers are familiar with (and regularly use) words like "schadenfreude" (German), which don't ...

In Maine and Vermont, home to French Canadian communities, French was the most popular non-English language, and in Hawaii, it was Iloko, a language spoken by the Ilocano people of the Philippines.

New figures released by the U.S. Census Bureau show that 22% of U.S. residents spoke a language other than English at home. In Hawaiʻi, it’s the Filipino language Iloko.

From ‘Tudo bem?’ to ‘Gracias,’ a growing share of US residents speak a language other than English Spanish was spoken at home by 13.2% of speakers, and it was the top non-English language ...

Today, Mam and other Mayan languages are expanding their reach, as indigenous people from Mexico, Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala are spreading them in the US through immigration.

Inuit languages really do have many words for snow, linguists found—and other languages have conceptual specialties, too, potentially revealing what a culture values ...

There’s a term for this decline in native language proficiency: first language attrition. The isolation from other speakers causes first language comprehension and production skills to deteriorate, ...

Languages are windows into the worlds of the people who speak them – reflecting what they value and experience daily. So perhaps it's no surprise different languages highlight different areas of ...

The other two Inuit languages in our data set (Western Canadian Inuktitut and North Alaskan Inupiatun) also achieved high scores for “snow”.