I wrote recently from Bosnia and Herzegovina about the curious practice of taking a unitary language and trying to find ways of representing it as several different languages for political reasons, in ...

As the world shrinks through political and economic integration, David Clingingsmith, PhD, has raised an intriguing question: How many of the world’s 6,000 languages still will be spoken 100 years ...

(JTA) — There are 49 days between the second night of Passover and the holiday of Shavuot, but who’s counting? Jews the world over, in fact, and in languages familiar and obscure. The daily counting ...