Google assistant (an intelligent personal assistant app developed by Google) will, starting this summer, be able to detect and respond in French, German, Brazilian-Portuguese and Japanese. And by the end of the year, the Assistant will also be able to speak Italian, Spanish and Korean. Opening the product to people who don't speak English

Online translation services work for fewer than 100 of the world's 7,000 languages. However, now a new machine translation technique could change that by providing translations for thousands of other languages.

When you think of Egyptian hieroglyphics, you probably think of looking at them. What you probably don't think of is reading them. However, for the first time ever Ancient Egyptian stories have been published in English for people to read. Writings from Ancient Egypt published by Penguin Random House contains stories that are over 2,000 years old.

Due to advances in the modern day language around the world is constantly changing and evolving. In fact, there are even some people who decide to give up one language in favor of another. In this article scientists attempt to explain why this happens by following the history of a language movement in Southern Carinthia, Austria and using methods from the field of physics originally devised for the use of identifying the motion of atoms.