The Latest Breaking News from Languages

The French language was introduced into Senegal through colonisation. According to Papa Alioune Ndao, professor of linguistics at the Cheikh Anta Diop University in Dakar:

Subjects that attract fewer pupils at GCSE and A-level are in danger of being axed from English state schools

A new state law that reduced the number of voting precincts means fewer bilingual ballots and election judges across six languages.

Dr. Walter Edwards is a professor of linguistics at Wayne State University, Michigan, where he teaches courses on African American Vernacular English, sociolinguistics and American dialects. Until Aug. 31, 2022, he was also the director of the Humanities Center at Wayne State. Below are highlights from interviews with The Conversation…

The largest-ever analysis of Google’s ad practices reveals how the tech giant makes disinformation profitable

A SCOTS language campaign group is calling on the Scottish Government to use its upcoming Scottish Languages Bill to create a Scots Language Board.

The government is “not really interested in playing the role of an ombudsman” but is taking that responsibility “reluctantly” as the intermediaries’ grievance redressal mechanism is “broken”, union minister Rajeev Chandrasekhar told the media on Saturday.

A group of Chinese language teachers allege they are owed unpaid wages and entitlements for work over decades due to a "grey area" of Victoria's education system.

Publishing simultaneously in 16 different languages, the book is billed as ‘full of insight, revelation, self-examination, and hard-won wisdom’