Nobody knows how many languages Americans speak. The most exhaustive tally by the Census Bureau a decade ago found more than 350, but the actual number is likely to be several times that. A recent ...

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South America is a rich melting pot of different mother tongues, with a reported 1,500 languages spoken across its 14 ...

At school in Tecate in the 1950s, a city sitting on Mexico’s border with the United States, Josefina Meza was welcomed by a chorus of children’s chants in a language she did not understand. “Pinches ...

The U.S. is reorienting its foreign policy to protect governments that manipulate and suppress information.