Dictionaries are deceptively simple, and incredibly ambitious. NPR's Don Gonyea talks to Stefan Fatsis about his book, ...

Exploring the evolution of dictionaries in the digital age and the enduring value of printed dictionaries in language ...

Manuel Da Luz Gonçalves, founder and owner of Mili Mila Incorporated in Roxbury and author of two Cabo Verdean Creole ...

A Wolastoqew family in New Brunswick has lent their voices to an online dictionary where viewers can hear over 19,000 words spoken in their language. The Wolastoqiyik live in western New Brunswick, ...

"Just how far removed we had already become from Britain even in the nineteenth century was not well understood in the mother country," begins an essay in the first pages of the Canadian Oxford ...

The Aboriginal language Miriwoong is one of the oldest languages on Earth, but fewer than 10 people speak it fluently. Miriwoong is considered critically endangered — on the brink of completely ...

Gija elder Shirley Purdie likes the naughty words in her ancient language. She admits they can be used to keep misbehaving children in line. ''Funny sort of words … a bit sweary … that say, 'you're no ...

The first dictionaries of the country's myriad ethnic languages without native written forms are rolling off the presses. As the foundations of the Middle Kingdom's Tower of Babel weaken, the ...

The first volumes of the dictionary were published in the 1950s A dictionary of the extinct language of ancient Mesopotamia has been completed after 90 years of work. Assyrian and Babylonian - ...