Once thing is clearer - American English has become the dominant form of the language. So I’m setting out on a journey now to see what’s happening to English in the United States. What answers do you ...

In the southeastern states, Arabic proved the most spoken language in six ... In fact, only one Native American language ...

Portugal has seen an influx of interest from American expats in recent years. Locals may speak Portuguese, but there are plenty of people here who also speak English. “You have a truly solid ...

On the other hand, just as there is a vernacular dialect known as African-American English, spoken by many African-Americans across the country, there is also a standard variety of African ...

Geneva Smitherman ended up in speech therapy in her freshman year at Wayne State University in the 1950s, when she failed a ...

Nineteenth and early 20th–century written notes on spoken Native American languages are valuable in the effort to sustain and revive these languages after a long history of suppression and loss. Many ...

To better understand it, a team of linguists in the College of Arts and Letters are leading the effort to create the largest recorded collection of conversational American English ever made. The ...

The study on languages spoken in the US used data from the American Community Survey and compared the number of people who said they spoke a language other than English at home in 2010 and 2017.

Americans speak a ton of languages, and this map shows which languages other than English and Spanish are the most common in each state and DC. The Census Bureau's American Community Survey ...

That fear is one motive behind the so far unsuccessful campaign to make English our official language. Do You Speak American? argues that Mexican and other Hispanic migrants are learning English ...