Often looked down upon as "pidgin German," dialects are an important part of cultural memory and diversity. Researchers say the vibrant spectrum of regional variations of German is under threat. One ...

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 ...

Financial support for the Dialect and Heritage Project has come from National Lottery Heritage Fund (£530,500), the University of Leeds’ Footsteps Fund and alumni donations (£110,000), and partner ...

On July 23, in a studio at Songjiang Radio Station, a 65-year-old Shanghai native, Zhou Yuanji, put on a pair of headphones and began to speak his mother tongue, Shanghai dialect. He began to sound ...

Napoleon Katsos receives funding from the Arts & Humanities Research Council, UK, the Wiener - Anspach Foundation, Belgium and the Isaac Newton Trust, University of Cambridge. He is also affiliated ...

Whale researchers and enthusiasts have long known about the loud clicking sounds made by the marine mammal to communicate. Now, new research shows how whales at different spots around the globe ...

By sourcing data from the ground, communities are helping enabling linguistic diversity inclusion at a time when Big Tech ...

Europe is unusual because it isn’t home to any native parrot species. But despite this, there is a rather large and diverse crowd of parrot species that have established naturalised populations after ...

On his recent track “Stupid Foreigners,” rapper Cai Zhenhong — better known as “Xie Di” or “Fat Shady” — rails against arrogant and entitled expatriates living in his homeland. Although it drew ...