Next time you're driving along Italy's Amalfi coast and you select "English" as the language on the car's GPS navigation system, there's every chance you've used Dr Julie Vonwiller's technology.

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On This Week with George Stephanopoulos John McCain is asked what he thinks of the military's policy "Don't Ask Don't Tell" policy toward gays and lesbians

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On Saving and Losing Aboriginal Languages: an Interview with an Outback Linguist

Documenting languages can be a race against time in Australia, where many Aboriginal languages are on the verge of extinction. But recording language is not only about keeping the past intact.

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U.S. intelligence analysts eavesdropped on personal calls between Americans overseas and their families back home and monitored the communications of workers with the Red Cross and other humanitarian organizations, according to two military linguists involved in U.S.

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Dozens of longstanding male names — Kim, Beverly, Ashley, etc. — have met the same fate. Linguists know the pattern well: not long after a boy's name catches on with girls, parents shy away from christening sons with it. "We crowd them out," Nilsen says.

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Linguist ponders origins of language

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Indigenous languages reveal facts about cryptic species and local ecosystems that were unknown to Western scientists. Scientists wishing to learn more about species in remote places should liaise with the people who have lived alongside them for centuries, Harrison says.

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"It seems that the Defense Department has a 'don't ask, don't tell' policy when it comes to homosexuals. You don't have such a prohibition in your agency, do you?" Ackerman asked. "No, we do not," Rice said.

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The dying flickers of the Teleut language can be found here in southern Siberia, where the coal industry blackens the sky and hems in what once was a thriving nomadic nation enlivened by shamans and holy mountains.

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Highest-ranking Arab-American agent says no, sues for discrimination. Bassem Youssef is the FBI's highest-ranking Arab-American agent. He's fluent in Arabic, ran the FBI's offices in Saudi Arabia and is a terrorism expert.

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Sgt. Cameron Murad wanders the strip malls and parking lots of this Iraqi immigrant enclave in the arid foothills beyond San Diego. Wherever he goes, a hush seems to follow.

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In the spring 2003 issue of the MZM newsletter, the Sentinel, Mitchell Wade extended prayers to American troops around the world and thanked his employees for supporting the troops in Iraq at this "perilous juncture." But MZM may have played a role in getting troops to Iraq, acco …

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Interestingly, the projects funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and the National Science Foundation (NSF) could save more than just a few mother tongues. It might also protect plants and animals.

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Linguists have long believed that the sound of a word reveals nothing about its meaning, with a few exceptions of words like "buzz" or "beep" that are known as onomatopoeia.

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David Foster Wallace once invented an organization called the "Militant Grammarians of Massachusetts" whose members boycott stores with signs reading "10 items or less." It was a joke (from the novel 'Infinite Jest'), but it's not too far-fetched.

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The Internet has connected translation technologies with consumers at a pace that feels threatening to many of the million plus linguists around the world. Will they lose their role in globalization?

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We are pleased to announce that the Language Knowledge Center (LKC) is being launched today.

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The US military is struggling to recruit Arab-Americans for its war on terrorism some five years after September 11, with many in the community wary of US foreign policy and fighting wars in the Middle East.

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