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A new information campaign to help culturally diverse communities in Sydney's north-west deal with a flood crisis will help keep them safe, the NSW SES Commissioner says.

During lockdown, I took short courses in Northern Sámi, Scots, Korean and Irish, and sat exams in Cornish

Country’s languages, dharma, culture, arts and history should be passed on to the future generations, says Union Home Minister

If Southeast Asia really needs to have official languages, choosing all the national languages of the ASEAN countries would be a prudent move.

From the fourth year of schooling, the majority of South African schools teach all subjects in English only. The devastating learning consequences of this for children who speak African languages at home have been compellingly captured in the documentary film Sink or Swim. These consequences include lack of conceptual understanding…

The developers of a new artificial intelligence system inspired by an endangered Aboriginal language say it has unique characteristics that make it easy to translate into commands.

There are both pluses and minuses in making mother tongue the medium for higher studies 

The University Grants Commission, in collaboration with MeiTY, will launch a portal to offer undergraduate and postgraduate digital courses in eight languages for the benefit of rural students

The IIT-M has commissioned the Nilekani Centre at AI4Bharat to advance Indian language technology with a grant of ₹36 crore from Nilekani Philanthropies