One day, when Sabrina Hakim was out for a walk with her father, he started speaking a language she could not understand.

Photo by assumption111 on Deposit Photos During pregnancy, one of the best things to do for a child in the womb is to talk to ...

NPR visits villages along the Lebanese-Syrian border where Israel has continued demolitions and attacks despite a ceasefire last year. MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: ...

Malaysians are questioning why a vehicle registered in the country is openly displaying a message in Hebrew, a language ...

Babies start processing language before they are born, a new study suggests. A research team in Montreal has found that ...

The Global Lingua Franca In 2025, English remains the most spoken language worldwide, with an estimated 1.5 billion speakers.

A deeper reach into human history is now possible, thanks to a growing body of archaeological data collected using advanced ...

All Americans have the duty to build the civil society needed to propel the U.S.-India partnership forward, but Indian ...

Lay-lah Lay-lah,” by artist Ella Ponizovsky Bergelson, uses ancient texts to connect the historic atrocity to a range of communities and underscore a shared humanity.

16:39, Sun, Sep 21, 2025 Updated: 16:45, Sun, Sep 21, 2025 The 2021 census revealed the five most commonly spoken foreign languages in England and Wales, and Spanish didn’t make the list. Over 91% of ...

When speakers of different languages meet, their words, sounds and even grammatical structures mingle in surprising ways. Ketchup, for example, may be an American staple today, but its name entered ...

As of 2025, the world is home to more than 7,000 spoken languages, reflecting the incredible diversity of human culture and communication. Yet despite this vast number, only a small fraction of these ...