Whether someone's speech is a language or a dialect is a matter of both linguistics and politics. illust-monster/iStock/Getty Images Plus In 2022, after the start of ...

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 ...

What does it mean to learn the Chinese language? Schools across the globe have generally presumed a consistent, straightforward answer to this question: it would mean learning standard Mandarin, ...

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 ...

I am so glad that we are now recognised as a people - Caribbean people. In the past we were pegged on to a motherland and so came the confusion over the way we speak. Back then the leaders insisted ...

The language model's development team discussing the project. [Photo by ZHENG ZHENG/CHINA DAILY] A team of researchers at Shanghai University has unveiled an artificial intelligence language model ...

MY column on the number of languages in the Philippines last week created a stir and received a number of comments and reposts on social media. While there were people who were happy to learn ...

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 ...

A language is a dialect with an army and navy. His point being that the difference between a language and a dialect was ultimately a political distinction and had little to do with linguistics per se.