The Latest Breaking News from Languages

Schoolchildren in rural India spend most of their screen time playing games, watching movies, or listening to songs, rather than accessing study materials or online tutorials. PlanetRead survey estimates 600M of India's "literate" people are weak readers. OTT platforms have potential to make meaningful contributions to reading literacy & language…

Figures for GCSEs taken in 2023 show that entries for GCSEs in languages have increased slightly from last year. Despite this, the number of pupils taking a modern foreign language stands at less than 60% of those that did in the peak year of 2001.

Govt announces week-long celebration of Gidugu Venkata Ramamurthy's 160th birth anniversary. Cultural activities in schools, colleges & govt offices. CM Jagan Mohan Reddy encouraging two languages in schools to ensure global employment. #Guntur #OfficialLanguageDay #APStateOfficialLanguageCommission

Writers K. Satchidanandan, Anjum Hasan on words as weapons of hope

English is the language of the law and of the courts, especially the superior courts

AP govt. to engage Native Speakers to teach Koya language in Chintoor agency schools. SMC to identify & engage native speakers. UNO declared 2022-32 as Int'l Decade of Indigenous Languages. 15 native speakers to teach 323 tribal students in 6 V.R. Puram, 5 Yatapaka & 1 Chintoor mandal schools. SMC…

If you’ve ever seen Monty Python’s Life of Brian, you might remember that Romanes eunt domus means “Romans go home”. Or does it? Isn’t domus the nominative? Shouldn’t we be using the dative? Or is it the accusative?

Computing and economics flourish while languages fall further out of fashion.

Study highlights significance of using large-scale data to address long-standing questions about evolution of languages