Kenneth Lowande, Ford School professor, explains why the Trump administration made English the official language of the US by saying, "The point of these actions is to show you that President Trump stands for people speaking English.” It is not...
Languages use different systems for classifying nouns. Gender languages assign many — sometimes all — nouns to distinct sex-based categories, masculine and feminine. We construct a new data set, documenting this property for more than four thousand languages which together account for more than 99 percent of the world’s population.
