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Editorial: The survival of ancient dialects matters not just for scholarship, but because of the wisdom they convey about how to live with nature

Romeyka is not written down and with most speakers growing old, a University of Cambridge academic is bidding to save it

Romeyka descended from ancient Greek but may die out as it has no written form and is spoken by only a few thousand people

Solos focuses on innovation with the latest AirGo3 update, which adds 15 new languages to the Solos app

A group of dedicated academics and language enthusiasts have kept the Tulu language Wikipedia pages alive for the last over seven years. But some institutional support would give it a big boost, they say.

‘Momentous change’ will permit lawmakers in Canadian province to address chamber in ‘first languages’

Gen Z is the generation that most uses social media to learn languages

Your expectations might be too high if you think an online language platform can teach you to have a meaningful conversation in a foreign language.

Shakira teases her highly anticipated new album with a chart revealing artwork and tracklist. Known for blending genres and languages, her diverse musical ...

This week is the Semaine de la francophonie. To mark it, RFI language services have focused on bilingual French dictionaries in their given languages and looked at how those dictionaries evolved. The English service took a look at Randle Cotgrave, an English lexicographer who lived during the late 16th and…

With more than 320 million speakers globally, French is the world's fifth most-spoken language. But traditionalists complain that spelling, grammar and vocabulary are on the decline. On International French Language Day, one linguist tells RFI that change isn't just inevitable – it's healthy.