Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Whether someone's speech is a language or a dialect is a matter of both linguistics and politics ...

A distinctive Scots brogue is at the centre of new international research that shows the brain treats a dialect and a language in the same way. Abertay University in Dundee, Scotland partnered with ...

Language forms the backbone of communal existence. It doesn't take long to discover this if you've ever traveled to a place where you don't speak the language. "Where is the nearest bathroom?", "How ...

This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article. The thatched roof held back the sun's rays, but it could not keep the tropical heat at bay. As everyone at the ...

YESTERDAY'S post on Cantonese touched a few nerves. A blog post is a very compressed medium, and I said some things briefly that I still stand by but which deserve a bit of elaboration. My calling ...

Microsoft's Translator now supports over 100 languages and dialects. Recently, 12 new languages and dialects were added to Translator. In addition to languages spoken by a large number of people, ...

Corrections & clarifications: An earlier version of this story contained inaccurate or incomplete facts about the history of language. Language is an essential part of human communication, allowing ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Since the start of the war in Ukraine, the number of people studying Ukrainian on Duolingo, a language learning website and mobile ...