As deaf individuals lost their sight in the DeafBlind community that Asst. Prof. Terra Edwards was studying, she discovered that an entirely new language emerged—one that doesn’t try to negotiate with ...

Mother tongue reading clubs continue to draw committed readers, but attracting youth can be an uphill task. Read more at ...

Brain-computer interfaces, AI and real-time censorship. Philip Seargeant tells us how modern tech is changing our language. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

Every year at the end of November, Guadalajara hosts the largest and most significant book fair for Spanish speakers: the Guadalajara International Book Fair (FIL). There, attendees can find both ...

Columnist, author, and linguist Richard Lederer spent about six months writing his latest book, “American History for Everyone.” That was a lot longer than it’s typically taken him to write his dozens ...

Young people, especially, are choosing to read in English even if it is not their first language because they want the covers, and the titles, to match what they see on TikTok and other social media.

Dr. Hartwell Francis reads from a hand-printed Cherokee language book made in partnership with Western Carolina University. (Photo by Anya Petrone Slepyan/The Daily Yonder) At the entrance to the New ...

The title translates to “orphan” in English, but people celebrating the release of the Lingít-language children’s book “Kuhaantí” emphasized the project is very much a multigenerational family effort ...

Anna Shechtman’s new memoir-history hybrid, “The Riddles of the Sphinx,” explores the gender politics behind one of the world’s most popular word games. By Cornelia Channing Anna Shechtman was 15 when ...