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 ...

An additional 100 screenings of the Teochew version of the film Dear You was approved on July 7. Read more at ...

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 ...

Idalia Fedotova, researcher at HSE University and the RAS Ivannikov Institute for System Programming, examined lexical differences across Khanty dialects and found that members of this relatively ...

Former representative Cho Kuk of the Rebuilding Korea Party claimed on July 5, “Ilbe mechanically attaches ‘no’ to standard ...

If you need to hit a nail, what tool do you ask for? If you say "hammer," do you pronounce the "r"? Do you drop the "h"? Different people pronounce the same English words in different ways. People ...

AS THEY CLEARED their heads after Burns Night on January 25th, having celebrated their national poet with whisky and haggis, another hangover loomed for Scots in less than a week’s time. A majority of ...

Chatter on social media cannot be used to determine the value of any language, since most of these exchanges answer to no scientific standards, and most users of these platforms cannot even spell ...