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Cherokee Nation launches Language Hub Website, New Testament audio feature
11+ hour, 45+ min ago (625+ words) The Cherokee Nation recently launched a new Cherokee Nation Language Hub website, which serves as a central place for Cherokee language resources. TAHLEQUAH – The Cherokee Nation has launched a new Cherokee Nation Language Hub website, a central place for Cherokee…...
What is the world’s loveliest and most attractive language?
8+ hour, 6+ min ago (276+ words) Crucially, most recordings had at least five different speakers, as the film has both exposition and dialogue. The team recruited 820 people from three different language groups—Chinese, English and Semitic (Arabic, Hebrew and Maltese speakers)—to listen to clips and…...
Language is the soul of a nation. And the murder of a soul has a name: linguicide.
1+ day, 9+ hour ago (573+ words) If Ukrainian and Russian really are “the same”, if Ukrainians are supposedly “the same people” as Russians …...
Star-Studded Library Cards
2+ day, 6+ hour ago (379+ words) We’re deep into Library Card Sign-up Month, so it’s the perfect time to look at the celebrated figures who have lent their likenesses to library cards to show their support for libraries. Here are some of our recent favorites. Hip-hop…...
The conversation Brits still struggle to have
2+ day, 14+ hour ago (358+ words) Brits have traditionally been known for having a stiff upper lip and keeping their problems to themselves. And while we’ve become much more open over the last few decades, there is still one area where we struggle to speak freely…...
The Language of Unspoken Things.
2+ day, 19+ hour ago (35+ words) A reflection on a forbidden love, and the quiet tragedy of how it ended. I have learned this grief the way you learn a second language, slowly, painfully, by living …...
How firelight may have shaped the origins of spoken language
4+ day, 7+ hour ago (633+ words) When asked about the greatest innovation of humans, people will often say language or fire. A new paper suggests that these innovations may be more interlinked than we previously assumed. Understanding how human language evolved is one of the hardest…...
Does time pass differently in the Qur???an?
3+ day, 7+ hour ago (532+ words) TIME appears simple because human beings experience it in one direction: the past disappears, the future has not yet arrived and our lives move...
My accent is unremarkable. But it has almost certainly helped me
3+ day, 9+ hour ago (1162+ words) September 18, 2026 — 5:00am One thing I’ve probably benefited from growing up is my accent. While my parents, who moved here 30 years ago, speak with noticeable Japanese accents, both my brother and I sound pretty Australian … so much so that I’m sometimes told…...
The longest and shortest words in the Torah
4+ day, 6+ hour ago (33+ words) We ask Hashem for the blessing of being able to be clever, so that we can use our wisdom to cope well in this world. The longest and shortest words in the Torah...