The languages category features all of our blog posts relating to languages around the world. We post on topics and news about languages and people.

ten most spoken languages

There are an estimated 7,100 living languages in the world that are endangered. The reason for this may be that the ten most spoken languages are rapidly taking over.

Typoglycaemia: a portmanteau of two separate words. Typo; a typographical error and hypoglycaemia; severely diminished content of glucose in the blood.

Knowing your roots. Like people, languages and words have roots. For many European languages, Latin is a common root language.

The history of the English language: its origins are unique, and divided into three stages: Old English, MIddle English and Contemporary English.