Since the start of the war in Ukraine, the number of people studying Ukrainian on Duolingo, a language learning website and mobile app, has increased by more than 500%. Most of those who are taking up ...

HONG KONG'S education department caused a furore in January 2014 by briefly posting on its website the claim that Cantonese was “not an official language” of Hong Kong. After an outcry, officials ...

Editor and writer Jin Yucheng says he hopes his novel, Blossoms, written in the Shanghai dialect, can help protect the language. Provided to China Daily A newly published novel written in the Shanghai ...

Part of the fun of getting to know an English speaker from somewhere else—be it a different U.S. region or a whole other country—is debating how to say certain words. To you, pecan is “pih-KAHN.” To ...

Across Europe, North America, and beyond, many learners are heritage speakers or descendants of Arabic-speaking families. Their motivation is deeply personal: connecting with grandparents, ...

I've had an interest in Chinese dialects since university and became more engrossed when my instructors set up a dialect association while I was a postgraduate student at Fudan University. I started ...

A play, “La Nora Luna,” written in the Italian-Jewish dialect known as Judaica-Fiorentino, has been published here for the first time by the Union of Jewish Studies in Florence. A book of poems.

AS THEY CLEARED their heads after Burns Night on January 25th, having celebrated their national poet with whisky and haggis, another hangover loomed for Scots in less than a week’s time. A majority of ...

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