Language lovers and locals of an isolated mining region of the Ozarks are scrambling to preserve what's left of a dialect known as pawpaw French before it fades. The dialect once dominated this ...

In the 1830s, a wave of immigrants from northern Germany settled in the area of Cole Camp, Missouri, bringing with them their farming skills and the dialect of Plattdüütsch. Now residents are working ...

In 2022, after the start of the war in Ukraine, the number of people studying Ukrainian on Duolingo, a language learning website and mobile app, increased by more than 500%. Most of those who have ...

In last week’s column, I discussed Sarah Bunin Benor’s recent book, “Becoming Frum,” which dwells largely on the process whereby American Jews who have become religiously Orthodox adjust to the ...

Some volunteers in the Illinois Dialects Project thrill the academics by offering up phrases they’ve never heard, like “clabber milk” for cottage cheese or “ducky-bumps” for goosebumps. Others swear ...

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 ...

Which accent is most pleasant to your ears? If you live in the West of England unsurprisingly West Country accents rank highly on the most desirable accents to be had, that's according to a new BBC ...