Whether someone's speech is a language or a dialect is a matter of both linguistics and politics. illust-monster/iStock/Getty Images Plus In 2022, after the start of ...

In last week’s column, I discussed Sarah Bunin Benor’s recent book, “Becoming Frum,” which dwells largely on the process whereby American Jews who have become religiously Orthodox adjust to the ...

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NORTHERNERS sound stupid. At least to some ears. This, very crudely, is the finding of a gold-standard four-year study in to accent bias in England published this week. Researchers uncovered ...

SOME researchers dedicate their efforts to studying the origins of languages and dialects, exploring which is softer, which is more refined, how languages formed among societies with varying ...

Since the start of the war in Ukraine, the number of people studying Ukrainian on Duolingo, a language learning website and mobile app, has increased by more than 500%. Most of those who are taking up ...