Language blog WordFinderX took household population data from the last census to discover the most spoken languages—outside of English and Spanish—across the United States.

President Donald Trump had kind words for Liberian President Joseph Nyuma Boakai on Wednesday, complimenting him for speaking ...

English stands out as the most common second language, being spoken by a significant portion of residents in 21 of the 48 nations.

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 ...

Laura Spinney’s “Proto: How One Ancient Language Went Global” explores the roots of language and how it spread and changed across time and place.

Elias Hirschl, author, spoken word artist, musician – and our new columnist – is very surprised by the battle cries of the self-appointed guardians of the German language. After all, it changes in one ...

While there were once more than 300 indigenous languages spoken in the U.S., it is thought that only 20 will be spoken in 2050.

Language proficiency is a ‘must’ for Swiss citizenship, along with other requirements, but does speaking two, or even three, ...

My brothers and I are the first Jewish students to ever study at the bilingual German International School New York.

American history shows that people can express their patriotism in many languages — and they can just as easily express disloyalty in English.

When looking at the data state by state, it was German that was found to come in third place across the United States: It’s ranked as the most spoken language after English and Spanish in no ...