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’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 ...

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, ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

For the average person, the differences between a language and a dialect seem pretty clear. A dialect is a subset of a language. One speaks in a dialect and writes in a language. As the linguist and ...