Spain failed on Monday to obtain the necessary unanimity to elevate Catalan, Galician and Basque into official languages of the European Union, as several member states raised concerns over the ...

North Sami, a language spoken in the Arctic, has more than 300 words for snow and a special word for "frightened reindeer". Can it survive in a warmer world? Pentti Pieski, a translator and tourism ...

How is the identity of a culture transferred? For many cultures it’s through geography or heritage. But what if it was knowledge of a language that conferred a people’s identity. Continuing our series ...

New archaeological research may help reveal what language prehistoric Britons and some other western Europeans spoke long before any other languages were introduced. Archaeologists in Spain have ...