Sparks Commentary

“Our knowledge of Biblical Hebrew is directly dependent upon Jewish oral tradition and thus on the state of that tradition during and follow...

Deciphering the Maya glyphs opened up an entire world to historians … Deciphering the Maya glyphs opened up an entire world to historians . ...

“Much pioneering work in documenting the languages of the world has been done by missionary organizations (such as the Summer Institute of L...

“And he [Jonah] said unto them, I am an Hebrew; and I fear the L ORD , the God of heaven , which hath made the sea and the dry land.” - T...

In 1986, there were two versions of “The Story of English” – a television series, and a book. I never got to see much of the television seri...

“If you are considering becoming a linguistics major, you probably know something about the field of linguistics already. However, you may...

“What do you call someone who speaks three languages? (Trilingual.) What do you call someone who speaks two languages? (Bilingual.) What d...

“We hope that this book, which knows how to say the important and say it well, contributes to spread linguistic knowledge that usually re...

So I recently finished reading " El español a través de la lingüística: Preguntas y respuestas " ("Spanish Through Linguistic...

So I recently read a book called "Historical Linguistics" (3rd edition) , by Winfred P. Lehmann , which talks about the way that...

I don't know where I came across this poem,  but I thought it was clever.

"What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet." - William Shakespeare 's "...