How do you say "deepfake," "ASAP" and "digital" in Korean? The fight to keep foreign words from diluting the language ...

This pithy word may only be three letters long, but it's deceptively complex. According to one lexicographer, it has 645 distinct definitions.

According to the Oxford English Dictionary, there are approximately 170,000 in the English language and a further 47,000 that ...

English, with about a third of its words rooted in French, is a prime example of how language transforms based on society.

The animals’ complex songs share structural patterns with human language that may make them easier for whales to learn, a new ...

The other study, published in Science Advances, found that whale song has parallels to another hallmark of human language: efficiency. "In general, in language, we try to convey as much information as ...