The previous administration’s progressive lexicon has been swept away, replaced by a new official language of a bureaucracy under fire from its own president.

Timothy Jay, a scholar in the science of swearing, has a few choice words about why we curse and how to cut back (if you want to).

A new study claims to have identified the first speakers of Indo-European language, which gave rise to English, Sanskrit and hundreds of others.

A prize offered by an Indian state leader is intended to shed light on a Bronze Age civilization — and settle a cultural battle.

Humans are known to invent private hand gestures. Chimps in the wild do, too, a new study suggests.

Many owners think so, thanks to the “talking buttons” craze on TikTok and Instagram. Scientists are less convinced.

He laid the foundation for sociolinguistics, and he showed that structures like class and race shaped speech as much as where someone lives.