Just how many languages are there in the world? The figures vary: According to the German Economic Institute, there are ...

According to various sources, there are several hundred programming languages, although only a couple dozen are widely used at any given time. The Online Historical Encyclopedia of Programming ...

Nobody knows how many languages Americans speak. The most exhaustive tally by the Census Bureau a decade ago found more than 350, but the actual number is likely to be several times that. A recent ...

If we assume that our brain picks up one new word per day, and that there are 1,000 languages and each one has 10,000 words, then it would take us 10 million years of learning to be able to talk to ...

The study, which examined 121 babies aged three to twelve months in Accra, the capital of Ghana, demonstrates a remarkable variety of language input in the early months of life. The children are ...