Foreign words undergo transformation in various ways when they enter another language. The following are some of the technical terms that linguists use to describe such changes. All languages have ...

By Damian Flanagan My eldest daughter has a fondness for learning languages -- French and German -- but her real passion is ...

It’s the language that gave us the world’s first novel, birthed commonplace words from tycoon to emoji and produced three winners of the Nobel Prize in Literature. Why, then, is the Japanese Word of ...

Japan has voted the word for 'tax' as its word of the year, as the government is trying to cut down on citizens' financial burdens despite spending a record amount of money. The character for the word ...

Words like futon, tycoon and karaoke are so ingrained in the English language that it's easy to forget they are actually of Japanese origin. In fact, Japan has long been a rich source of loan words ...