There are thought to be over 7,000 languages around the world, with the most being in Asia. That continent has 2,300 and is followed by Africa with 2,144. However, one chart published by Statista ...

Evelyn Shih earned a BA in Literature from Yale University, as well as an MA in Asian Studies and a PhD in East Asian Languages and Cultures from UC Berkeley. Her book project, Cold War Laugh Lines: ...

and East Asia. Chinese itself is not a single language, but a language family like the Romance language family to which French, Spanish, Italian, Romanian, and Swiss Romansch belong. Like the Romance ...

Japanese tops the list of the Asian languages most Americans want to learn, according to a new study from LTL Language School, reports the Good Men Project. The study is based on 900 combinations ...

Korean, known in the language itself as Kugo, is the language of the Korean Peninsula in northeast Asia. In the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK, or North Korea) there are 20 million ...

These language families, including Germanic, Indo-Iranian and Celtic, evolved from a common tongue called the ...

For decades, the leading theory for the ubiquity of Indo-European languages was that early farmers, living in a region known ...

Celebrating a history of over 30 years, the Department of Asian Languages and Civilizations at CU Boulder brings global diversity to the curriculum and the Boulder campus. Our department’s focus on a ...

Where lies the origin of the Indo-European language family? Ron Pinhasi and his team in the Department of Evolutionary ...

Netflix has unveiled a five-series Chinese-language lineup for 2025, headlined by major stars and spanning genres.