English is no longer the first language for the majority of pupils in one in 15 councils. In 11 of England's 153 local educational authorities, children speak another language at home, such as Urdu, ...

Stevi Frets and Max Pyles joke as they do the dishes at the S’unaq Tribe’s language house in Kodiak on Sept. 15, 2022. (Photo by Claire Stremple/KTOO) Half of the first language speakers of Kodiak ...

Language forms the backbone of communal existence. It doesn't take long to discover this if you've ever traveled to a place where you don't speak the language. "Where is the nearest bathroom?", "How ...

Almost half of all people in the world today speak an Indo-European language, one whose origins go back thousands of years to a single mother tongue. Languages as different as English, Russian, ...