Researchers have found that languages around the world have words for 'this' and 'that'. The 45-strong international team studied 29 languages from around the world including English, Spanish, ...

Nobody knows how many languages Americans speak. The most exhaustive tally by the Census Bureau a decade ago found more than 350, but the actual number is likely to be several times that. A recent ...

Right now someone is speaking or thinking in a language that is on the verge of disappearing. Of the world's roughly 7,000 spoken languages, one dies every 40 days, according to one estimate - ...

Mark Harvey received funding from the Australian Research Council. Robert Mailhammer receives funding from the Australian Research Council. He is also a member of the Executive Committee of the ...