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Carnegie Mellon University’s Department of Modern Languages has been renamed the Department of Languages, Cultures & Applied Linguistics (LCAL).“This new name really captures the diversity and complexity of…

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain A new study of people who speak many languages has found that there is something special about how the…

A new study of people who speak many languages has found that there is something special about how the brain processes their native language. In the brains of these polyglots — people who speak five or more…

What makes for a good, lasting marriage? I can’t speak for everyone, and I don’t believe there’s just one magical thing. But my husband and I recently celebrated our 25th wedding anniversary, and I can share something that’s helped us:…

When answering questions posed in Chinese, French, German or Russian, large language models seem to process the queries in English, which could create cultural issues

A new book called Ethnicity, Identity and Conceptualizing Community in Indian Ocean East Africa tracks the history of the coastal communities of east Africa and how the Sabaki family of Bantu languages was formed, shaped in part by…

Children living in multilingual communities often learn in a language at school that does not match the language they speak at home. This mismatch makes it challenging for them to participate in classroom discussions and learn to…

Cristina Quirino Mariano, a member of the Ticuna people, writes a message using the Linklado app in Manaus, northern Brazil. For…

Figure 1. A visualisation of the text segmentation into text units: SPSF, SIN, and PIN. Figure 1. A visualisation of the text segmentation into text units: SPSF, SIN, and PIN. Figure 2. Algorithm for assigning segments…

LOVE languages have permeated popular culture. On TikTok, videos about them have billions of views. On dating shows such as The Bachelor, contestants reveal their love language to potential suitors to gauge their…

January 17, 2024 – People seeking evidence-based information about what may cause cancer can find it—in nine languages—on Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health’s Cancer FactFinder website. A January 8 article in The Herald News of…

Editor’s note: José Luis Duce Aragües and Andrea Bustos are prescribed fire training specialists with the Watershed Research and Training Center‘s Fire Management Program. Erin Banwell is the co-director of the Fire Management…

If the joy and excitement of following your own path could be personified, it would look like Timothy Loh. A love of languages led him nearly around the world to study, and then to MIT, where he is a…

Global distribution of the mean sonority indices (MSIs) across 9,179 language varieties from the ASJP database. Color of dots represents the MSI of the language, with…

Jarvisen Translator 2 Launched globally, supporting 108 languages and accents. It has became anyone’s linguistic sidekick, breaking language barriers which dampen the experience and Embarking…

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Dechen, 40, grew up in Thimphu, the capital city of Bhutan. Her native language was Mangdip, also known as…

Multilingual does not always mean multiple accounts or websites. Increasingly, multilingual content is delivered in an integrated way, with two (or more!) languages delivered on the same website, app, or social media platform. The…

Ideologies lead to linguistic attitudes expressing favor or disfavor toward a language. Credit: Adrián García (IFISC, UIB-CSIC) Language has…