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Many liberal Russians shelter in states once part of the Soviet Union. It’s time that they learned to respect the cultures and languages their nation has so long suppressed

In the 2016 science fiction movie Arrival, a linguist is faced with the daunting task of deciphering an alien language consisting of palindromic phrases, which read the same backwards as they do forwards, written with circular symbols. As she discovers various clues, different nations around the world interpret the messages…

Identical twins Matthew and Michael Youlden, language enthusiasts from Manchester, UK, have achieved a rare feat — they speak 26 languages fluently, including their own secret language, Umeri.

Language can give people the power to take an active part in their own healthcare, or it can create barriers.

Letters: They are more likely to thrive and receive funding from Nordic governments if an academy is formed to establish unified language norms, writes Donald Rayfield

British capital may be second only to New York in the number of at-risk languages spoken, says Ross Perlin

If you’ve ever gone to look up a quick fact and just kept browsing from one article (or page, or video), to another, to another – then you know the feeling of “going down a rabbit hole”. This experience of curiosity-led online wandering has become synonymous with the free, user-created…

Samsung also added a couple of dialects support to existing Galaxy AI languages as part of the rollout.

Ross Perlin’s Language City: The Fight To Preserve Endangered Mother Tongues won from a six-book shortlist.