Imagine standing atop a rugged mountain range, gazing at an ancient landscape that whispers stories older than any nation.

The impulse to reach for sounds instead of words to mean “yep” and “nope” crosses cultural boundaries. Swedes can agree by ...

Yiddish, the historic language of Jews in Europe and Russia, was once nearly extinguished. But now Jews drawn to the language for different reasons are keeping Yiddish alive.

Professor Kulakoglu explains that many of the words, although Assyrian in origin -- a Semitic language considered an ancestor ...