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, ...

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.