Arabic

Languages fork like codebases — and the merge button doesn't exist. Who actually decides when a dialect becomes its own language?

Roughly 250 of the world's 7,000 languages have 100,000+ speakers. What's it like living in one of them?

What 774 experiments and a new Armenian model reveal about the tradeoff between fluency and knowledge in low-resource languages.

Egypt dominates a viral thread of countries travelers swear they'll never revisit. Here's why — and what the defenders say.

Israel's Academy of the Hebrew Language can coin words the state must use — but it can't make anyone say them. Why 10 million speakers might be the...