"Language as a system is codified in gender binary, and is therefore exclusive and violent."

The Centre this week released a new list of Unparliamentary words ahead of the monsoon session -- leading to sexual harassment being left without a vocabulary to articulate it in lawmaking spaces.

Chimpanzee communication is much more sophisticated than previously thought, providing new clues to origins of language in humans too.

A new study shows society’s idea of “person” prioritizes men over women — suggesting a “fundamental bias in our species’ collective view of itself.”

Clichés have earned a bad rep, but they reflect essential truths familiar to all of us.

"Emojis could help treating children, disabled patients with communication impairments, and bridge language barriers."

People who use inflections are more likely to be more conscious of who they are talking to and what they are saying, note experts.

"Anger is a very strong, short-term emotion that motivates people into action" with negative implications in the long term, researchers say.

Researchers identified 250 common words and labels such as "disturbed" or "confused" that discourage people to seek professional help.

Local languages and rare vocabularies hold invaluable knowledge about the environment, nature, and history.

As a nation, we are familiar with false memories. Cricket is not our national sport. The lion is not our national animal. And Hindi, one of India's regional languages, is not our national language.

The term 'batter' will replace 'batsmen,' and the 'man of the match' will now be called 'player of the match.'

Officials say the policy will broaden access to education, but critics worry it discourages the English skills needed in a globalized world.

The platform has previously come under fire for boosting content favorable to the ruling BJP during and after elections.

Separate parts of the brain are responsible for understanding and reproducing a language, making the two activities mutually exclusive.

"With womxn you're just separating them more, you're not being inclusive, you're excluding them from women.”

Research written in languages other than English rank lowest in the academic search engine's results, no matter how applicable it is.

A new study of India's genetic diversity flies in the face of previous, Euro-centric research that held the closer people live to each other, the more similar their genomes.