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Seven times people discovered the Americas – and how they got there

When Columbus landed in 1492, the Americas had been settled for tens of thousands of years. He wasn’t the first person to discover the continent. Instead, his discovery was the last of many discoveries.

The Conversation

Gwenno: ‘I was scared of using Cornish in the past. You feel like that with languages that are more fragile’

The Welsh artist is up for this year’s Mercury Prize with her resplendent Cornish-language album, ‘Tresor’. She speaks to Roisin O’Connor about wanting to ‘other’ herself in St Ives, her experience of pregnancy, and her view that most people are curious, not fearful, of other cultures

The Independent UK

Britain’s multilingual children: ‘We speak whatever language gets the job done’

In modern Britain, millions of kids grow up learning two languages or more – and experts believe fluidity in language has some surprising advantages

The Guardian - UK

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Bengaluru Bengali Kannada Film Festival returns to the city after two years

Various award winning films and documentaries in both languages will be screened at the festival

The Hindu

Macron is pushing the French language in ways not seen before

From the start of his first term as France’s president in 2017, Emmanuel Macron made the relaunching of French as a world language his prime cultural project.

The Conversation

Indigenous names enrich atlas of life

The Indigenous names for hundreds of native plants and animals have been added to the Atlas of Living Australia.

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Haacaaluu Hundeesaa: sublime Ethiopian singer who inspired Oromo struggle protesters

I speak to myself whispering Our situation has defied resolution, our misery isn’t improving We are in despair and idling, that is why I am whispering. So sings Haacaaluu Hundeessaa to his people, the Oromo, in the song Waa’ee Keenya (Our struggle), calling on them to take action against centuries…

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Is it important to post election signs in languages other than French in Québec?

In electoral campaigns, election signs help candidates market themselves. But does the language of an election sign matter in a multilingual society?

The Conversation

COVID was a setback for indigenous languages: South African lecturers on what went wrong

South African indigenous languages are among those at risk of a serious decline due to the increasing use of digital technologies. By some estimates only 5% of the world’s languages are likely to survive online.

The Conversation

The Kiwi who voiced a communist regime

How a Māori woman ended up broadcasting communist propaganda in 17 languages at one of the largest broadcasters in all of Europe - and gained a cult following.

Newsroom.co.nz

Andhra Pradesh: All Acts of Parliament and State Legislatures should be in public domain’

Thammineni bats for greater use of social media to get closer to people and ensure transparency and accountability

The Hindu

GCSE trends: what this year’s results tell us

Good news for computing and Polish, bad news for music and French.

The Independent UK

A look at India’s rich tapestry of languages

A look at the scheduled languages and how our current linguistic framework came to be

The Hindu

Regional language important in early learning: UGC Chairman

UGC Chairman Jagadesh Kumar told The Hindu that the regulatory body was aiming at preparing 1,500 books in regional languages in the next one year across different disciplines

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India’s obsession with English has limited scope of development: Amit Shah

He was speaking at a programme on the New Education Policy 2020 in Bhopal

Evening Standard

‘Paltry’ languages take-up threatens Ebacc

Expert says decline in GCSE French and German puts qualification at risk

France 24

Mali demands emergency UN meeting over French 'acts of aggression'

Mali calls for an emergency UN Security Council meeting over alleged French “acts of aggression”. Bamako accuses Paris of espionage and supporting jihadists as French troops, who had been in the country on an anti-terror mission, pull out. Also, a week ahead of the tightest general election Angola has faced…

The Conversation

Linguistics locates the beginnings of the Austronesian expansion – with Indigenous seafaring people in eastern Taiwan

The study of Indigenous languages spoken in maritime South-East Asia today has shed new light on the beginnings of the Austronesian expansion. This was the last major migration of people spreading out across the Pacific Ocean and, ultimately, settling Aotearoa.

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All-English education in India neither desirable nor doable

Converting classrooms into an all English-speaking environment takes away children’s opportunities to develop crucial skills in their home languages.

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It takes commitment to preserve a language

Malaysia’s Indigenous language Bidayuh is declining in use and it will take a concerted effort to ensure competing languages don’t cause its demise.

Tribune News Service

California has the most non-English speakers. Why do lawmakers have to translate at meetings?

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Assemblywoman Wendy Carrillo, D-Los Angeles, was leading a hearing in the California Legislature when a caller began speaking Spanish over the public comment phone line.

ABC News

NSW SES launches new flood campaign in community languages targeting Sydney's north-west

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.

The Guardian - UK

Experience: I speak more than 50 languages

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

The Hindu

Should medicine be taught in the local languages?

English is important as a medium of instruction, but a regional language helps in practising medicine

Reuters

Students cheer as online translation tools add more African languages

Ugandan IT student Andrew Njuki spent years hunched over English-language textbooks, often grappling with material that would have been easier to grasp in his mother tongue Luganda.

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