Growing up, there was always a debate about whether or not Bisaya was a language or a dialect. I distinctly remember one of my grade school teachers telling me that Bisaya is a dialect when I insisted ...

A language is a dialect with an army and navy. His point being that the difference between a language and a dialect was ultimately a political distinction and had little to do with linguistics per se.

EVEN as the country works towards developed-nation status, it must not lose sight of its unique multicultural heritage, warn experts.

The language model's development team discussing the project. [Photo by ZHENG ZHENG/CHINA DAILY] A team of researchers at Shanghai University has unveiled an artificial intelligence language model ...

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 ...

Depending on where you were raised, distinct accents commonly develop. But with millennials who are raised on the web, is it possible to have an Internet dialect? YouTube's PBS Idea Channel uploaded a ...

Language forms the backbone of communal existence. It doesn't take long to discover this if you've ever traveled to a place where you don't speak the language. "Where is the nearest bathroom?", "How ...

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 ...

JOHNSON has touched on Arabic and its variety quite a few times over the years, but we have never really addressed a critical question directly: what is "Arabic" today, and is it really even a single ...