Seventeen percent of Estonians speak various Estonian dialects, a figure that has grown over time, according to the latest ...

In fact, Mandarin itself is only a dialect—albeit a widespread one—of the overarching language group of “Chinese,” which itself comes from the Sino-Tibetan family of languages. Mandarin Chinese is ...

In northern England ‘dinner’ is the word often used for a midday meal and ‘tea’ for an evening meal, but in southern England ‘tea’ is often a light afternoon meal and ‘dinner’ is ...

Okinoerabujima island in Kagoshima Prefecture is one of the target areas, and concerted efforts are now under way to revive the local dialect. Okinoerabujima became part of Japan’s Satsuma ...

Tobias Le Compte, a 35-year-old Belgian musician widely known as Tobias or Gao Yue, has become a sensation on social media for his excellent grasp of Shanghai dialect. A multi-instrumentalist and ...

The American Dialect Society—the same august, century-old body that brought us “-ussy” as its 2022 Word Of The Year—has gone ahead and once again decided to choose chaos, naming “rawdog ...