Add a brand new language to the list of things named after satirist Stephen Colbert. Researchers at Northwestern University said the Comedy Central host and prominent Northwestern alum had inspired ...

In any language, Sonja Elen Kisa was depressed. The world was overwhelming, and the thoughts that swirled through her mind in French, English, German or Esperanto echoed that. So Kisa, 28, a student ...

Invented languages do more than cause lively debates among Star Trek fans. Esperanto, and other international tongues, are meant to repair the plague of Babel. J.R.R. Tolkien’s Elvish and its ilk help ...

One of the many claims to fame author J.R.R. Tolkien had - you know, on top of creating a vast fantasy universe that is still beloved to this day - is crafting the unique languages that inhabited it.

New research finds the brain's language-processing network also responds to artificial languages such as Esperanto and languages made for TV, such as Klingon on 'Star Trek' and High Valyrian and ...

Hildegard von Bingen was something of a medieval genius. She founded and was Abbess of a convent at Rubensberg in Germany, she wrote ethereally beautiful music, she was an amazing artist (one of the ...