word nerds Man wins Spanish Scrabble World Championship — and he doesn't speak a lick of Spanish Carla Sinclair

Culture Enjoy this tri-lingual Indigenous podcast in Quechua, Spanish and English Elías Villoro

ireland Watch this delightful short film about a Chinese immigrant in Ireland Thom Dunn

africa New evidence of African writing system that pre-dates European colonialists Thom Dunn

languages Here's how to write the alphabet in Egyptian hieroglyphs Gareth Branwyn

south africa Video: Man explains the various click sounds used in the Zulu language David Pescovitz

language This linguistic analysis of "The Pop-Punk Accent" is absolutely fascinating Thom Dunn

languages This guy can speak gibberish in many different languages Mark Frauenfelder

language Poll warns "Colder Than A Witch's T!t" and other phrases in danger of dying out Thom Dunn

plagiarism Academic paper on language colonization turns out to have stolen its language Thom Dunn

trailers Watch this trailer for new film made entirely in the Blackfoot language Thom Dunn

dune Celebrate today's opening of Dune in the U.S. (and the reported greenlighting of Dune part 2) by marveling at the Danish word for "Dune" Rob Beschizza

music The Beatles' 'Blackbird' sung in the indigenous Mi'kmaq tongue Thom Dunn

language This Mayan language animated short film is just one of dozens in indigenous Mexican languages Thom Dunn

fantasy A look at the languages of JRR Tolkien and their influence Gareth Branwyn

languages Watch this TV journalist report the news in six languages David Pescovitz

Funny Unnervingly good entry in the "what languages sound like to non-speakers" genre Rob Beschizza

History Listen to Yola, an extinct dialect of English Rob Beschizza

languages Woman speaking Shaetlan Rob Beschizza

colonialism Inside the effort to save an indigenous Pacific Island language that the US tried to destroy Thom Dunn