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Recovering Indigenous language

Linguists have estimated that prior to European settlement, there were 300 Indigenous languages spoken in the U.S.

Salon

Daily Mirror comic strip artist celebrates 65 years of flat-capped legend Andy Capp

At the height of his popularity, the comic strip equalled Charles Schulz’s Peanuts for global fame, was syndicated to 1,700 newspapers worldwide and translated into 14 different languages

Daily Mirror

How do non-English-speaking Americans vote?

Around 15% of counties in the US are federally required to provide ballots in a non-English language under the Voting Rights Act.

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How does the government help non-English speakers vote?

Under the Voting Rights Act, thirty states are required to provide non-English voting materials in at least one locality.

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Telangana: KT Rama Rao opposes Hindi medium in Central educational institutions

HYDERABAD: Opposing Hindi imposition as a medium in all technical and non-technical institutions including central universities, TRS working president and minister KT Rama Rao said the recommendation of the committee of parliament on official language headed by union home minister Amit Shah was unconstitutional and demanded the recommendation should be…

The Times of India

KTR flays Centre’s move to make Hindi medium must in education

Writes to the Prime Minister demanding withdrawal of the decision

The Hindu

From Australia’s most youthful industry to a spirits boom: seven work trends from the census

The country’s workforce remains care-driven, data shows, while people are increasingly upskilling – or opening distilleries

The Guardian - AU

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CM joins Stalin in opposing the Centre's move to impose Hindi as medium of education

Parliamentary panel also moots regional language as medium of study in educational centres situated in respective regions

The Hindu

‘Baby talk’ has similar features across many languages, study finds

Findings shed more light on how children grasp language

The Independent UK

Tamil Nadu: CM Stalin warns against imposing Hindi

Tamil Nadu CM slams the reported recommendation of panel to use Hindi as a medium of instruction in IITs, IIMs and Central universities (in Hindi-speaking States and regional languages in other parts); he says ‘do not attempt to make Hindi mandatory and force another language war on us. Do not…

The Hindu

Staff Selection Commission notifies exams only in Hindi and English, draws ire

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The Hindu

Japan's missing children: The lingering trauma of North Korean abductions

In the 1970s and 1980s, North Korea organised a kidnapping campaign in "enemy" countries. As one of its closest neighbours, Japan became a prime target. The programme, decided at the highest level of the Communist state, was likely intended to train North Korean spies in foreign languages and customs. FRANCE…

France 24

Effort to recover Indigenous language also revitalizes culture, history and identity

When the federal government set up boarding schools in the 19th century to assimilate Native American children into American culture, one of the objectives was to get them to turn away from the use of their native languages. In recognition of Indigenous Peoples’ Day in the U.S., The Conversation turned…

The Conversation

Booker Prize winner Marlon James on writing the 'African Game of Thrones'

Salmon Rushdie described him as "one of the most important voices of his literary generation" and "an author who must be read". Booker Prize winner Marlon James speaks to Eve Jackson about his trilogy dubbed the "African Game of Thrones". The first book of the epic fantasy series the Dark…

France 24

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Evening Standard

Hieroglyphs at the British Museum: how the Rosetta Stone opened up 4,000 years of knowledge to the world

This new blockbuster show, which opens today, tells the story of one of how one of human history’s oldest written languages was decoded

The Guardian - US

Disinformation in Spanish is prolific on Facebook, Twitter and YouTube despite vows to act

Social media platforms’ failure to eradicate the false information amounts to aiding and abetting disenfranchisement, advocates say

The National (Scotland)

'Ground-breaking' language plan paves way for Scots variants to flourish

A “GROUNDBREAKING” language plan in Shetland should pave the way for Scots to “gain the foothold it deserves”, a linguistics expert has said.

The Conversation

Karl, Karel or Karol? The translation confusion over King Charles III's name, explained

Prince Charles is no more. In the English-speaking world, we’re now getting used to calling the former Prince of Wales “King Charles III”. As the King has chosen to keep his birth name as his regnal title, the change isn’t too difficult. But in other languages, things are more complicated.

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No! Protests Against The Mauritanian Language Law Continue

The survival of Mauritania’s non-Arabic cultures, according to opposition groups, would be threatened by a law that they have pledged to continue demonstrating against. The Mauritanian government says that the new law, passed this summer, is a much-needed educational reform.

The Guardian - UK

The Observer view on the shortsighted cuts to the BBC World Service

Removing radio broadcasts in several languages will severely damage Britain’s ability to promote its priorities and values

The Hindu

‘Thisaidhorum Dravidam’: vast and liberating expanse of translation

An initiative of the Tamil Nadu Textbook and Educational Services Corporation to identify and translate Tamil literary works into English and other Dravidian languages has picked up steam. Several books are set to be released around November

The Guardian - UK

Hundreds of jobs to go as BBC announces World Service cutbacks

Corporation to end production of radio output in 10 languages, including Chinese, Hindi and Arabic, as it blames licence fee freeze

Dynamite News

Technology: ICCR Signs MoU With Google To Ease Search In Sanskrit

ICCR and Google are collaborating to improve the Sanskrit translation experience. This will help Google improve artificial intelligence for translating Sanskrit text to various other languages and vice versa. Read further on Dynamite News:

Asharq Al-Awsat

Syria and the Kurds

Kurdish leader has said that one of their negotiating counterparts in Damascus questioned whether the registration of Kurdi, the Kurdish language, in the Syrian constitution could one day lead to establishing whistled languages in Syria. The Syrian-Kurdish negotiator said there shouldn’t be an issue with whistled languages if they could…

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Just Gonna Say It: So-Called Australia Should Learn From NZ Widely Use Aboriginal Languages

Teach 'em in schools, put 'em on signs, whatever. There's no reason not to show the first languages of this land the respect they deserve.

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