Linguistics is one of the degrees most often dragged through the mud for being "useless," but The Lord of the Rings, one of the highest-grossing franchises of all time, might not have been possible, ...

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David J. Peterson invents fake languages for a living. His most well-known creations to date include Dothraki and Valyrian on Game of Thrones, Trigedasleng on The 100, the demonic Verbis Diablo on ...

The most influential language on the planet is English, as you could probably guess. But why? Chinese has the most native speakers worldwide. A new interactive graphic from researchers at MIT Media ...

Estimates derived from Wikipedia, which is based on figures from Ethnologue and Microsoft Encarta.

Subatomic particles streaming from the Earth’s interior carry important evidence of the planet’s origins. As children, many of us played at the possibility of digging a hole so deep it could reach the ...

Indigenous peoples speak more than 4,000 of the world’s 7,000-odd languages. These native tongues function as so much more than a means of communication; they encode community histories, traditions, ...

Here on Earth, we speak over 7,000 living languages. But in science fiction, alien species routinely turn out to have just one language, or a few major dialects at best. Over at Slate, they ask ...

14 May 2007 Google launched its free pioneer service, Google Earth, in seven new languages: Arabic, Czech, Polish, Russian, Dutch, Korean and Portuguese. This multi-language launch of Google Earth ...