Most people are aware of the song “Istanbul was Constantinople” and perhaps no better than the Greeks of Istanbul themselves.

Ubique means “everywhere” in Latin, so the verb ubiquit literally means “to become ubiquitous”—or in other words, to seem to appear everywhere. Ever needed the perfect word to describe a neighbor ...

If you've heard "goblin mode" or "swiftie" lately, it's thanks to them: Young girls are more innovative with language than any other group, linguists say. Young women check their phones on a fire ...

From the election of Zohran Mamdani to the intrigue surrounding the jewel heist at the Louvre, keeping up with this year’s news also left some Americans struggling with pronunciations.

In the Swiss Alps, a plan to tidy up Romansh—spoken by less than one per cent of the country—set off a decades-long quarrel ...

The Cypriot dialect has travelled a long way from the margins. Once confined to casual conversations and jokes among friends, it is now breaking into public life, heard in radio ads, TV sketches, and ...

Puma Tzoc was living in New York a decade ago when a friend asked him to help a client who had spent three months in jail.

Ioannis Ikonomou, a Greek translator, is not the average polyglot who speaks four or five languages, he speaks 32 -- 16 of them fluently.

NPR's Eyder Peralta speaks with Esteban Touma, language expert from the app Babbel about 2025's most mispronounced words.

Pope Leo XIV’s first overseas trip will take him to two ancient, historic lands, both lands of the Bible and of the early Church. But Turkey and Lebanon are connected to each other by a difficult, ...

A semester that concluded with Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis’ speech at Commencement also saw the launch of a major online resource for Greek literature that was largely developed at Boston ...