If French is the language of love and English is the language of business, then where does that leave the German vernacular? With its strong consonants and sharp vowels, to many the German tongue ...

Since the Middle Ages, umlauted vowels have been indicated in various ways in German. Before the two-dot ... An artificial language full of umlauts became hugely popular in the 1880s.

The Scripps National Spelling Bee is underway this week in Maryland, with contestants tackling words like cynosure, grobian and scrunchie. And that got some of us wondering... Why are spelling ...

Those throat-clearing sounds you hear in German ... s most underrepresented languages. “Italian has a rather small vocabulary, but because of the beauty of its vowels, it tends to sound better ...