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 ...

Somali is one of the Cushitic family of languages spoken in the horn of Africa and the official language of Somalia. This practical grammar, published in 1905, was prepared by J. W. C. Kirk, who first ...

Mark Travers writes about the world of psychology. Love languages have gained widespread recognition for enhancing intimacy and understanding between partners. Yet, it is equally vital to ...

Afroasiatic languages are spoken by some 300 million people in Northern, Central and Eastern Africa and the Middle East. This book is the first typological study of these languages, which are ...

Former first lady Melania Trump has previously stated that she's fluent in six languages, but could this impressive factoid ...

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 ...

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 ...

Korean, known in the language itself as Kugo, is the language of the Korean Peninsula in northeast Asia. In the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK, or North Korea) there are 20 million ...

Languages for All is a university-wide scheme for all University of Sheffield students and members of the public wishing to develop foreign language skills. This could be learning a new language from ...

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 ...

Sign up for sign language rights! The International Day of Sign Languages is a unique opportunity to support and protect the linguistic identity and cultural ...

Students in Saint Louis University’s Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures don’t just study language; beyond linguistic and intercultural competence, they gain an appreciation for art, ...