An analysis by the Pew Research Center of Census data has determined that Arabic is now the fastest-growing language being spoken in U.S. homes. Pew looked at American Community Survey data from 2006 ...

Full disclosure: My editor asked me to answer this question—“What’s the fastest language in the world?”—because I like writing about both language and strange, global superlatives. Pretty quickly I ...

There are more than 7,000 languages spoken around the world, each with its own character. Tamil is the oldest living language, dating back 5,000 years, while Esperanto is a much newer creation. Some ...