Adam Schembri works for La Trobe University, and is a member of the Victorian Auslan Training Consortium. He receives funding from the Australian Research Council. Before we answer that question, it ...

Whether or not the first humans could speak is still a matter of debate, but most scientists agree that languages have been around for at least 80,000 years. The written word, in contrast, is ...

Simon Horobin does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ...

President Donald Trump recently signed an executive order designating English as the official language of the United States, marking the first time in the country’s 248-year history that the ...

That English has become a dominant world language is a consequence of history. The British Empire spread English to many parts of the globe, first through coloniz ation in the 17th and 18th centuries ...