Since the 1960s Manhattan’s Chinatown has featured bilingual street signs, but recently these signs have begun to disappear.
On Tuesday, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) celebrated International Mother Language Day with a series of panels on multilingual education.
For Tolkien, language was life, not some lesser academic interest but a cornerstone of human civilization brimming with power and depth.
In their book The Language Game, linguists Morten H. Christiansen and Nick Chater propose a series of novel concepts about the nature of language...