German is the most widely spoken native language in the EU, with 120 million "speakers" worldwide and approximately 5.3 million words. However, it still lacks a few terms from other languages that ...

How many words does the German language have? We'll get to the bottom of this question in the second episode of our podcast ...

In 1884 the anthropologist Franz Boas returned from Baffin Island with a discovery that would kick off decades of linguistic wrangling: by his count, the local Inuit language had four words for snow, ...

According to various sources, including linguistic experts and language databases, here are some of the languages with the ...

Once swearwords were dismissed as a sign of low intelligence, now researchers argue the ‘power’ of taboo words has been overlooked When researchers asked people around the world to list every taboo ...