Europe is home to 24 official languages, while as many as 200 are spoken across the continent. That might not seem like a big number when compared to Africa, where 1,500 and 2,000 languages are spoken ...

Linguists fear that the ancient Greek dialect Romeyka, which has only a few thousand speakers, could die out — severing a tie with the ancient world. Romeyka is spoken in northern Turkey but has more ...

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 ...

As more and more key aspects of daily life migrate online, language inclusion can be a key component of ensuring equal access for all in digital spaces. However, many African languages lack the ...

Some dialect variations can be limited to one village. Slovakia is a small country, but the variety in its language is great. Indeed, much of the nation's history concerns the struggle to identify, ...

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