Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Since the start of the war in Ukraine, the number of people studying Ukrainian on Duolingo, a language learning website and mobile ...

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 ...

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 ...

Tourists visiting La Gomera and El Hierro in the Canary Islands can often hear locals communicating over long distances by whistling — not a tune, but the Spanish language. “Good whistlers can ...

For many diasporic Latines, an inevitable argument arises around identity and language. If you don’t speak the primary language of your home country, whether that’s Spanish, French or Portuguese, the ...

This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article. The thatched roof held back the sun's rays, but it could not keep the tropical heat at bay. As everyone at the ...

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Large language models such as GPT-5 and Llama systematically rate speakers of German dialects less favorably than those using Standard German. This is shown by a recent collaborative study between ...