When bilinguals interact with other bilinguals who know the same languages, they may well intermingle their languages through code-switching or borrowing. Code-switching—the shift from one language to ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Language evolution is traditionally described in terms of family trees with ancestral languages splitting into descendem languages. However, ...

that silent letters exist in English. and the spelling system just hasn't kept up with it. like through and thought and night ...

ON TWITTER, a friend asked "Twenty years from now, how many Chinese words will be common parlance in English?" I replied that we've already had 35 years since Deng Xiaoping began opening China's ...

Update: Thanks for all the replies. We've rounded up some of the best reader suggestions for Chinese words that English should adopt.

Like the ancient Greek of Homer's time, the Tsimane' language has no set word for the parts of the color spectrum English speakers call “blue.” Although Tsimane' does name a number of more subjective ...

Aamir Hasan and Nadeem Hussain’s upcoming book examines how English continues to shape class and opportunity in South Asia ...