A smattering of Yiddish words has crept into the American vernacular: Non-Jews go for a nosh or schmooze over cocktails. Yet the language itself, once spoken by millions of Jews, is now in retreat.

Ever feel like you don’t have enough penciled in on your calendar? On December 3, dictionary publisher Shōgakukan announced that its word of the year is kūhaku kyōfushō, or “a morbid fear of blank ...

In the preface to his Japanese-Malayalam dictionary, K.P.P. Nambiar writes about his impressions of the Japanese language which he first encountered in 1965 as a student in Japan. “I was struck with ...

Associate professor Yoshiko Koide, right, and her seminar students working on making an otaku terminology dictionary, are seen at Nagoya College in Toyoake, Aichi Prefecture, on May 25, 2023.