What’s the difference between a language and a dialect? Is there some kind of technical distinction, the way there is between a quasar and a pulsar, or between a rabbit and a hare? Faced with the ...

There are an incredible number of stereotyped perceptions of China that pervade Western culture, from the myth of the model minority to that of the dragon lady. Breaking these stereotypes is crucial ...

The data showed that the protective effect of multilingualism remained significant even when they adjusted for demographic ...

What does it mean to learn the Chinese language? Schools across the globe have generally presumed a consistent, straightforward answer to this question: it would mean learning standard Mandarin, ...

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 ...

Large language models such as GPT-5 and Llama systematically rate speakers of German dialects less favorably than those using ...

The Muscogee Nation is sounding the alarm over the need to revitalize two Indigenous languages. Principal Chief David Hill ...

The question whether Flemish is a language or a dialect is as interesting, and as futile, as asking if Mancunian, Texan or Appalachian are languages or dialects of English. In the Netherlands as well ...