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 ...

“Ga san hu” is now what you may hear every day if you are a loyal listener of the 2012 radio program A La Ting Xin Wen (Let’s listen to news). Many people were curious about the meaning of ga san hu.

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 ...

Depending on where you were raised, distinct accents commonly develop. But with millennials who are raised on the web, is it possible to have an Internet dialect? YouTube's PBS Idea Channel uploaded a ...

Using advanced imaging to visualize brain areas used for understanding language in native Japanese speakers, a new study finds that the pitch-accent in words pronounced in standard Japanese activates ...

In last week’s column, I discussed Sarah Bunin Benor’s recent book, “Becoming Frum,” which dwells largely on the process whereby American Jews who have become religiously Orthodox adjust to the ...

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 ...

The ability of children to speak any two dialects -- two closely related varieties of the same language -- may confer the same cognitive advantages as those reported for multilingual children who ...

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 ...