A semester that concluded with Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis’ speech at Commencement also saw the launch of a major online resource for Greek literature that was largely developed at Boston ...

The Cypriot dialect has travelled a long way from the margins. Once confined to casual conversations and jokes among friends, it is now breaking into public life, heard in radio ads, TV sketches, and ...

As Karnataka celebrates Kannada Rajyotsava, writers, artistes, and scholars highlight the rich diversity of Kannada dialects that reflect the state’s linguistic heritage As Karnataka celebrates ...

The name Palestine occupies an extraordinarily politicized position in the study of Near Eastern ethnonyms and toponyms. Its contested etymology has long ceased to be a matter of neutral philology; it ...

If you have studied almost any European language, you will have noticed words that felt oddly familiar. French mort (dead) recalls English murder. German Hund (dog) is a dead ringer for hound. Czech ...

If you have studied almost any European language, you will have noticed words that felt oddly familiar. French mort (dead) recalls English murder. German Hund (dog) is a dead ringer for hound. Czech ...

Emma Choo, a four-year-old Singaporean, possesses an ability that is rare among her young peers – she can greet people in Hokkien, a Chinese dialect that has plummeted in usage in Singapore in recent ...

“Our captain has a handicap to cope with, sad to tell. He’s from Georgia, and he doesn’t speak the language very well.” — ‘It Makes a Fellow Proud to be a Soldier’ by Tom Lehrer. Citizens of Georgia, ...

Cara is a graduate of NYU's Game Design program with a love for all things narrative and gaming. Like a Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii has some of the most absurd story beats of any game in the ...

A notable figure who blazed the trail for Greek tragedy was a man named Thespis. A poet and actor, Thespis began to act out individual characters by switching between different masks. In its earliest ...