Semicolons are becoming increasingly rare; their disappearance should be resisted

Roslyn Petelin, The Conversation

· Yesterday · 05:30 pm

‘Women need their own rooms in their own worlds’: Deepa Bhasthi on translating the female language

Deepa Bhasthi

· May 04, 2025 · 07:30 am

Hindi: The ‘national language’ that marginalises its own

Charu Singh

· May 02, 2025 · 09:00 am

‘Boats Nudged into the Sea’: Ambai on text, translation and authors who refuse to die

Ambai

· Apr 13, 2025 · 03:30 pm

‘Thx’, ‘gr8’, ‘k: Why you should think twice before using shorthand in your text messages

David Fang, The Conversation

· Apr 12, 2025 · 06:30 pm

The lore of ‘lore’: How fandoms created an online phenomenon from an Old English word

Kate McNicholas Smith, The Conversation

· Apr 10, 2025 · 05:30 pm

Language changes are early signs of Alzheimer’s – here are five things to look out for

Sarah Curtis, The Conversation

· Mar 25, 2025 · 10:00 pm

‘Wonderland of Words’: Shashi Tharoor’s ‘seriously funny’ book on the quirks of the English language

Krutika Puranik

· Feb 22, 2025 · 05:30 pm

Linguist Peggy Mohan examines early Indus Valley languages and their lack of ‘literature’

Peggy Mohan

· Feb 19, 2025 · 08:30 am

Swearing, insults and hate speech: The social and psychological power of taboo language

Jon Andoni Duñabeitia, The Conversation

· Jan 19, 2025 · 05:30 pm

Korean peninsula’s north-south split has created a distinct lingustic divide

Daniel Pieper

· Nov 13, 2024 · 07:30 pm

Personal essay: From home to Parliament, the progression of communal slurs

Radha Khan

· Sep 29, 2024 · 09:00 am

Hindi paradox: Language of cultural pride that few Indians can read and write properly in

Apoorvanand

· Sep 20, 2024 · 09:00 am

Personal essay: A writer on the dilemmas of loving the Hindi language in a Sikh Punjab

Rajiv Thind

· Sep 15, 2024 · 08:30 am

‘Rickshaw’ has its roots in Japanese, and ‘hinterland’, in German: Shashi Tharoor writes about words

Shashi Tharoor

· Aug 28, 2024 · 01:30 pm

Semantic journeys: How some communities turned words used as slurs as an assertion of pride

Rizwan Ahmad Manish Thakur

· Aug 07, 2024 · 09:00 am

Why a community-run Gondi-language school in Gadchiroli is a revolutionary step

Bodhi Ramteke

· Jun 15, 2024 · 06:30 am

How a global organisation of volunteers is kindling love for Urdu

Abdullah Zahid

· Jun 10, 2024 · 11:30 am

In the Philippines, community works to save Butuanon language from fading into silence

Ivy Marie Mangadlao, The Human Journalism Network

· May 27, 2024 · 11:30 pm

Former TN minister Aladi Aruna’s book examines the history of anti-Hindi agitations in the state

Aladi Aruna R Vijaya Sankar

· May 23, 2024 · 08:30 am