La forma en la que una persona escribe puede decir mucho de su personalidad y preparación

My ancestral languages, Boarisch (Bavarian) and Schwäbisch (Swabian), are routinely described as German dialects. That might sound like a technical linguistic distinction. For me, a Boarisch-Schwob scholar and community member, it raises a practical question: What happens to a people when their ancestral language, which carries their identity and “Weltanschauung” (worldview), is excluded from protection under a European language treaty because the modern state and dominant culture reduce it to a dialect?

Clerics in Kashmir announced a coordinated move to deliver congregational Friday sermons across local mosques and imambargahs in the vernacular Kashmiri l…

Like her polyglot parents, millennial Jillian Lim has socialised with people of many races and ethnicities all her life. She interrogates why this exposure hasn’t made her more proficient with a variety of languages and dialects.