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Babies are like little detectives, constantly piecing together clues about the world around them. If you’ve ever noticed your baby staring at you while you talk, it’s because they’re picking up on more than just sounds – they’re learning how those sounds are made.

Shiyue Wu, a member of Francesco Perono Cacciafoco’s research team at Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University (XJTLU), who is currently developing intensive fieldwork in Alor Island to document and preserve endangered languages, discovered and first documented Kape during a Language Documentation fieldwork in August 2024 and therefore actively contributed to this study.

Do you think you can recognize languages from around the world just by reading a few lines? This trivia quiz will take you on a journey through excerpts from songs, poems, and literature in a variety of languages. Whether it’s a romantic verse in Italian, an inspiring lyric in Ukrainian,…

When South Africa became a democracy in 1994, five of the country’s universities used Afrikaans as a medium of instruction. There were also two bilingual universities teaching in Afrikaans and English.

D-ID releases an AI translation tool that clones voices into 30 languages

Remember Great Wall Motor? It's OK if you don't because it hasn't been around for very long. In motorcycle world, there's even less to go on than there is in the car world. While the company has been making cars for a minute (including intriguing low-cost EVs offered in multiple…

Titles will be released in English, with other languages to follow

With half of all languages predicted to die out in decades, activists are turning to online tools to preserve them

The holidays have reminded me of the many languages of love – most of them barely comprehensible