The latest edition of the Duden, the preeminent dictionary of the German language, contains 3,000 new words. Language purists are rattled — and some politicians also feel threatened by the changes.

English may be the European Union’s lingua franca, but listen carefully in the corridors of power and you’ll find the language of Goethe and Schiller is on the rise. German is gaining ground among the ...

Joint press statement issued by the Federal Foreign Office, the Goethe-Institut, Deutsche Welle, the German Academic Exchange Service and the Central Agency for Schools Abroad Interest in German is ...

The story of languages is, by and large, one of extinction. Some estimate that in a hundred years only a few hundred languages will survive, as urbanization, globalization, and international media ...