The English language is challenging due to complicated grammar, inconsistent sentence structure and colloquial idioms that it doesn't share with related languages. However, English is a target ...

languages of Siberia. Others would argue for the inclusion of Uralic languages (Hungarian and Finnish) and Japanese in this macro family. Although not definitively proven, this affiliation is accepted ...

as well as Samoyedic languages and similar Finno-Ugrian languages and cultures studies the structure, history and use of Finno-Ugrian, also known as Uralic, languages. In addition to the methodology ...

These are distinct from other Native American languages, and might even be distantly related to Uralic languages such as Finnish and Hungarian. This, with DNA evidence, suggests the Eskimo-Aleut ...

In the language of the Tuvan people, khoj özeeri means not only slaughter but also kindness, humaneness, a ceremony by which a family can kill, skin, and butcher a sheep, salting its hide and ...

Historically, they spoke Uralic languages, were largely semi-nomadic, and lived separately from the Norse and Finnish peoples further south. However, during the mid-19th century, as nationalism swept ...

Kamila Ghazali is an Associate Professor in Linguistics, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. How far do we go in implementing language policies into the education system so as to ...

Language research at the University of Helsinki has always maintained its strong commitment to a better understanding of cultural areas and their history. Situated in an ideal place for the study of ...

Few things in Chinese culture are more widely misunderstood outside of China than the Chinese language. The Chinese write very differently from us and indeed from all other literate societies in today ...

The Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures in the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Delaware offers a diverse array of undergraduate programs that provide students with a ...