linguistics

Ioannis Ikonomou, a Greek translator, is not the average polyglot who speaks four or five languages, he speaks 32 -- 16 of them fluently.

Despite the fact that Greek roots are found throughout English, Greek is among the hardest languages for English speakers to learn.

According to new research conducted by the e-learning platform Preply, Greek is the fifth-sexiest language after Russian, French, Portuguese, and Italian. Italian was rated the sexiest of all the world's languages. In the study, the heart rates of participants from diverse...

Have you ever wondered why Rhodians appear to have a slight Cypriot twang when they speak? Greeks on the island of Cyprus date back to around the 14th century BC. The island rapidly became an important center of Greek culture...

  The Greek professor of linguistics of the University of Stuttgard, Dr. Artemis Alexiadou, is among the eleven researchers (four women and seven men) who will receive Germany’s most prestigious research prize, the Leibniz Prize, on March 12, 2014in Berlin. A...