Linguistics is one of the degrees most often dragged through the mud for being "useless," but The Lord of the Rings, one of ...

In any language, Sonja Elen Kisa was depressed. The world was overwhelming, and the thoughts that swirled through her mind in French, English, German or Esperanto echoed that. So Kisa, 28, a student ...

Linguists David and Jessie Peterson discuss the joys of building out the lexicon of the Fremen language in "Dune: Part 2." Nerds of a particular disposition once had to seek out a little red book by ...

Eylem Altuntas is a researcher at the BabyLab within the MARCS Institute for Brain, Behaviour, and Development at Western Sydney University. Babies are like little detectives, constantly piecing ...

Arika Okrent was studying languages at the University of Chicago. The languages people use and how they work. She was in the library, poking around. "And then," says Okrent, "I drifted down to the ...

Predator: Badlands star Dimitrius Schuster-Koloamatangi revealed in a new interview that he had to make up his own alien language and complete an obstacle course during his auditions for the movie ...