Devy uncovers the astounding paradox of Sanskrit—an ancient language that shaped Indian thought, philosophy, and identity for ...

As linguist David Crystal points out in A Little Book of Language, Adam's first job was to name all the animals. So the first human was a wordsmith, and his descendants have been at it ever since.

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The launch ceremony was held in Beijing on Saturday for a book release, A concise history of the Communist Party of China, in multiple languages including Russian, French, Spanish, German, Arabic and ...

(1) IT is curious that so many industrious JL persons have issued, in the course of the last eighty years, one-sided dictionaries of Kafir (Xosa) dialect of the great Zulu language, and that no one ...