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This paper discusses how the French Revolution impacted language going into the 19th century. As the language and rhetoric of French Republicans spread throughout Europe, a cultural gulf emerged between France and traditional European nation-states, such as Prussia.

The U.S Department of Defense is cutting funding for 13/31 language flagship programs at 23 universities including Brigham Young, UH Manoa, and University of Washington. This comes as a surprise for the linguistic community as this will cut nearly half of of Chinese, Korean, Arabic, and Russian groups alike. The overall concern is this will be detrimental to national security, and global diplomacy raising conerns about the future of language education, and the U.S's ability to engage with other cultures.

This is an article debating on what was the "true" first language ever used in human history. Most historians and linguists somewhat agree that the oldest language is between Sumerian, Egyptian and Akkadian.

This article discusses that there is a new emergence of the "Tiktok voice". This accent is described as one with a rising intonation and declarative sentences which incapsulates a sense of persuasiveness and personalization. The "Tiktok voice" has been more concentrated in the younger female demographics as it is scientifically proven that women are often the innovators of linguistics.