Top of the pops is Arabic, spoken by some 150 million people across the continent. It’s the liturgical language of Islam and ...

UNESCO’s World Atlas of Languages documents 8,324 languages, spoken or signed, of which around 7,000 languages are still in use today. Only 351 languages are used as medium of instruction. One ...

Simile Thaddeus Sholto is described as having 'a bald, shining scalp which shot out from among it like a mountain-peak from fir-trees' Conan Doyle does not use much figurative language in this novel.

Whether chatting with family, friends or work colleagues or just watching television or surfing the internet, almost two-thirds (64%) of Swiss use more than one language at least once a week ...