Across the world’s languages, nouns are surprisingly chameleonic creatures, shape-shifting and category-hopping in ways that ...

Learning numbers in a European language has probably affected your early maths ability. It turns out there are better ways to count. If I asked you to write down the number “ninety-two”, you ...

There are millions of people, even in the mostly monolingual US, who speak more than one language at home. Competence in three languages is not unusual. But what about 10, 20, 30, 100 languages?

Language can influence how quickly kids learn to count ... the words that different languages use for numbers can affect how easily we learn to count and understand basic concepts such as fractions.

His numbers are surprising, compared with the ones featured in the CIA's Factbook.According to the CIA, Spanish is spoken by 4.85 percent of the world's population and its use is even more ...

The simulation model predicts virtually the same number of languages (407) as were observed in reality (406).

By contrast, Apple Translate supports 21 languages, though that number includes both US and UK English as distinct options. Apple recently announced plans to add Hindi to its Translate app.