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Brazil's Krenak people receive literary recognition and apology for past human rights abuses, highlighting the importance of Indigenous voices and cultural...

Editorial: The survival of ancient dialects matters not just for scholarship, but because of the wisdom they convey about how to live with nature

‘Momentous change’ will permit lawmakers in Canadian province to address chamber in ‘first languages’

Gen Z is the generation that most uses social media to learn languages

Your expectations might be too high if you think an online language platform can teach you to have a meaningful conversation in a foreign language.

Shakira teases her highly anticipated new album with a chart revealing artwork and tracklist. Known for blending genres and languages, her diverse musical ...

This week is the Semaine de la francophonie. To mark it, RFI language services have focused on bilingual French dictionaries in their given languages and looked at how those dictionaries evolved. The English service took a look at Randle Cotgrave, an English lexicographer who lived during the late 16th and…

With more than 320 million speakers globally, French is the world's fifth most-spoken language. But traditionalists complain that spelling, grammar and vocabulary are on the decline. On International French Language Day, one linguist tells RFI that change isn't just inevitable – it's healthy.

Tech companies' focus on English-speaking regions leaves non-English speakers vulnerable to election misinformation worldwide.