The Economist on Sanskrit.

Too good to be true.

Shocking!

"tu" vs "vous". (And "ты" vs "вы", "þér" vs "þú", etc.)

“The options ... are pretty embracive.” Er, "embracive"???

Of sea-pigs and loanwords. (Do read comments too.)

The new Russian alphabet. (I especially like Щ for Щкайп.)

"It is an important step to move beyond nonsense about the decline of English and chin-wagging about the Young People, and to talk about the difficulty of mastering standard written English, which is no one's native language."

How language changes over time!

together with answers to IAQ (i.e. infrequently asked questions)

A linguistics blog discusses Doctor Who.

Why are we so good at learning a first language, and so poor at learning a second language?

Use of "genre" as a particle.

English language quiz - I got 6 on the first round, 5 on the second and 4 on the third. What about you?

Where do vowels come from?