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There's a new book out about the rise and use of a globalised English, dubbed " Globish ": Globish is a privatised lingua fran...

Today marks a milestone for the innovative language-learning site Chinesepod: it has published its 1000th Mandarin lesson . Those not famil...

Now that's what I call open content : WALS is a large database of structural (phonological, grammatical, lexical) properties of language...

The world is poorer today: Marie Smith Jones, who worked to preserve her heritage as the last full-blooded member of Alaska's Eyak Indi...

Samuel Johnson famously wrote an early English dictionary entirely on his own. But a far better approach today would be to write one collab...

I have mixed feelings about constructed languages. On the one hand, efforts like Esperanto seem utterly pointless to me: given that there ...