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

Israel has a legally mandated afternoon rest that almost nobody takes. Where the siesta came from, why Spain abandoned it, and who's napping now.

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...

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