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What Are Dead Languages?
“Latin is a language as dead as dead can be,” runs an old schoolroom verse, “it killed the ancient Romans and now it’s killing me!”
One Town, Five Official Languages
Deep in the heart of the Amazon Rainforest, a huge municipality (about the size of Tennessee) is establishing a unique linguistic legacy: it has five
International Decade of Indigenous Languages
The linguistic diversity displayed throughout the planet’s many cultures and communities is something essential to humanity, and to what it means to be a truly
Can Artificial Intelligence Decipher Lost Languages?
Celebrated in lore and legend, ancient civilizations and their forgotten languages have long fascinated historians, archaeologists, and linguists. Today, these researchers have a new instrument
The Languages That Will Not Auto-Translate
In a steadily globalizing world that’s spinning faster every day, there’s little doubt that auto-translation is here to stay. Despite all the snickering at machine
Google Translate Expands with 24 More Languages
“Languages are deeply linked to lives, to cultures, to ethnic groups and political organizations.” Roberto Zariquiey, Linguist Pontifical Catholic University, Peru Spoken by more than
Can Invented Languages Help Endangered Languages?
HIjatlh* We’ve discussed invented languages before. International Auxiliary Languages are invented (or constructed) as second languages to promote communication and understanding. For some, IALs are
The Romance behind Romance Languages
Pretty much everyone has heard the term Romance languages at one time or another. But why are they called Romance languages? Is it because they
Winter Olympics and Its Official Languages
Love winter or hate it, every four years it gifts us with an Olympic Games. This grand spectacle of snowy, icy sport is part of