Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Whether someone's speech is a language or a dialect is a matter of both linguistics and politics ...

Using advanced imaging to visualize brain areas used for understanding language in native Japanese speakers, a new study from the RIKEN Brain Science Institute finds that the pitch-accent in words ...

You might take that British or Minnesotan accent in your favorite film or TV show for granted, but that’s certainly not the case for whoever helms and writes a cinematic piece. Different English ...

A non-programmer friend asked me that question today out of random curiosity. I initially said no, but then I thought about it some more. Many languages have versions, like how C++, PHP, and HTML have ...

Is saying 'breeks' instead of 'trousers' or 'tatties' instead of 'potatoes' like speaking a different language? New University of Dundee research suggests that dialects are processed differently to ...

YESTERDAY'S post on Cantonese touched a few nerves. A blog post is a very compressed medium, and I said some things briefly that I still stand by but which deserve a bit of elaboration. My calling ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. What's the difference between a language and a dialect? Is there some kind of technical distinction, the way there is between a ...

The ability of children to speak any two dialects -- two closely related varieties of the same language -- may confer the same cognitive advantages as those reported for multilingual children who ...

As more and more key aspects of daily life migrate online, language inclusion can be a key component of ensuring equal access for all in digital spaces. However, many African languages lack the ...