Just how many languages are there in the world? The figures vary: According to the German Economic Institute, there are ...

According to various sources, there are several hundred programming languages, although only a couple dozen are widely used at any given time. The Online Historical Encyclopedia of Programming ...

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 ...

The study, which examined 121 babies aged three to twelve months in Accra, the capital of Ghana, demonstrates a remarkable variety of language input in the early months of life. The children are ...

Q: If a newborn child grows up hearing people speaking in many different languages, will it later be able to speak all those languages? -- Puneesh T., India A: Children learn languages from the people ...