linguistics
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‘My Fair Lady’: A linguist on how the movie holds up 60 years later
Amanda Cole, The Conversation
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Languages are vanishing as climate change displaces Pakistan’s mountain communities
Fawad Ali
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All caps, ellipsis, punctuation? Young people may be facing a communication divide with older ones
Daniel Bürkle, The Conversation
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Whether in Hindi or Hungarian, swear words have similar sound patterns
Ryan McKay, The Conversation Shiri Lev-Ari, The Conversation
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How you perceive colours can depend on the language you speak
Pedro Raúl Montoro Martínez, The Conversation
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Codecracking and competition: Why the online world has fallen in love with the word puzzle Wordle
Erin Sebo, The Conversation
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Can your dog understand you? Yes, somewhat
Sophie Jacques, The Conversation
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Google Translate is sexist. What it needs is a little gender-sensitivity training
Stefanie Ullmann, The Conversation Danielle Saunders, The Conversation
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Two brothers wage a crusade to ensure that doctors communicate better with patients close to death
Michael Erard, Mosaic.com
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Millennialspeak: ‘Like’ is not a lazy linguistic filler. The word has, like, a grammar of its own
Rebecca Woods, The Conversation
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Linguists have identified the weirdest languages – and English is one of them
Adam Schembri, The Conversation
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Like English in the UK, the British Sign Language has developed its own dialects
Kearsy Cormier, The Conversation Adam Schembri, The Conversation
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Why West Africa’s widely spoken pidgin tongues should be recognised as official languages
Edosa James Edionhon, The Conversation
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What the falling popularity as ‘Donald’ as a baby name tells us about the politics of naming
Philip Seargeant, The Conversation
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Podcast: The young Indian who found fame in Europe in 20th century for speaking Esperanto
Padmaparna Ghosh and Samanth Subramanian
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How researchers combined linguistics and archaeology to determine the age of Dravidian languages
Michael Dunn, The Conversation Annemarie Verkerk, The Conversation
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The family of Dravidian languages is 4,500 years old, finds new study
Scroll Staff
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Between the lines: What Kazakhstan’s move from Russian Cyrillic script to Latin alphabet signifies
Andrew Linn, The Conversation
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The leading academy for French is up in arms against a movement to make the language less sexist
Olivia Walsh, The Conversation Thomas Godard, The Conversation
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Red, yellow, pink and green: How the world’s languages name the rainbow
Claire Bowern, The Conversation