What is the most spoken language in the world? The answer differs based on whether you count all speakers or just native speakers.

Conversely, if nearby towns speak different dialects, their language features will be more different. Many of these dialect boundaries have long histories, such as that separating the English of ...

Politics says something different For political scientists, the difference between a language and a dialect is not based on mutual understandability, but rather politics.

Linguists who have spent their lives studying American dialects say blacks and whites not only speak two different forms of English, the dialects are more different today than they were 100 years ago.

Heritage Images/Hulton Fine Art Collection via Getty Images English never really caught on with the aristocracy, but since servants and the middle classes needed to communicate with aristocrats – and ...

From ‘Tudo bem?’ to ‘Gracias,’ a growing share of US residents speak a language other than English Spanish was spoken at home by 13.2% of speakers, and it was the top non-English language ...