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 ...

The socio-linguist and scholar Max Weinreich once said, “A shprach eez a deealekt mit an armee un flot”, which translates to, “A language is a dialect with an army and navy.” The original sentence is ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Does modern Yorkshire still boast a distinctive dialect? Rod McPhee got some answers from Professor Clive Upton of the Yorkshire Dialect Society. Did you know with a Digital subscription to Yorkshire ...

Whatever your ethnicity or language may be in Nigeria, chances are you often unselfconsciously refer to your tribe and dialect when talking about your identity. It is not your fault. It is the fault ...