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In the 2016 science fiction movie Arrival, a linguist is faced with the daunting task of deciphering an alien language consisting of palindromic phrases, which read the same backwards as they do forwards, written with circular symbols. As she discovers various clues, different nations around the world interpret the messages…

Language has always been used as a political football in South Africa. This can be traced back to the competing English and Dutch colonisers, from the 17th to the early 20th centuries, each group trying to assert linguistic as well as economic and social control.

Language can give people the power to take an active part in their own healthcare, or it can create barriers.

Letters: They are more likely to thrive and receive funding from Nordic governments if an academy is formed to establish unified language norms, writes Donald Rayfield

British capital may be second only to New York in the number of at-risk languages spoken, says Ross Perlin

If you’ve ever gone to look up a quick fact and just kept browsing from one article (or page, or video), to another, to another – then you know the feeling of “going down a rabbit hole”. This experience of curiosity-led online wandering has become synonymous with the free, user-created…

Samsung also added a couple of dialects support to existing Galaxy AI languages as part of the rollout.

Ross Perlin’s Language City: The Fight To Preserve Endangered Mother Tongues won from a six-book shortlist.

In the age of artificial intelligence (AI), foreign language learning can seem like it’s becoming obsolete. Why invest the time and effort to learn another language when technology can do it for you?