Should a country speak a single language? In India, one of the world’s most polyglot countries, the government wants more than a billion people to embrace Hindi.
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Why tackling accent bias matters at work
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Do you speak Estonian?
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The endangered languages of New York
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How native English speakers can stop confusing everyone else
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Researchers have decoded more than half of the characters in the so-called Kushan script by comparing them with inscriptions in a known ancient language called Bactrian
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Learn a foreign language before it’s too late
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The art of translation
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The year woke broke: A brief history of a contested word
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Why you should never, ever use two spaces after a period
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Disney brought its streaming service to Iceland last year – the country's education minister has sent a letter of complaint over the lack of Icelandic dubbing and subtitling
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How should I refer to you? | Review of “What's Your Pronoun?”, by Dennis Baron
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Why I'm possessive about apostrophes
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How millennials are breathing fresh life into the ancient Irish language
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Why are we still teaching reading the wrong way?
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Code hidden in Stone Age art may be the root of human writing
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The mystery of people who speak dozens of languages
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A debate over the word for ‘grandmother’ in China exposes a linguistic and political rift
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We use sports terms all the time. But where do they come from?
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Since the 1960s, dictionaries have cataloged how people actually use language, not how they should. That might be changing.
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Koko, the beloved gorilla that learned to communicate using sign language, has died
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