In this video, we explore the criticisms and cultural perceptions surrounding the Papyrus typeface. We discuss its origins, created by Chris Costello, and its prevalence in popular media, particularly ...

Is language core to thought, or a separate process? For 15 years, the neuroscientist Ev Fedorenko has gathered evidence of a language network in the human brain — and has found some similarities to ...

Meta Platforms is making it easier for creators to create and consume content in a wider range of Indian languages on Instagram, Facebook, and the standalone Edits app. In a Mumbai-based event called ...

Instagram is finally giving Indian users the attention they have been asking for. The company has announced two big updates designed especially for India, one of its largest and most active markets.

To-day was the 75th. birthday of the Haham Dr. Moses Gaster. Born in Bucharest on September 16th., 1856, Dr. Gaster took his degree at Bucharest University in his 18th. year. He then proceeded to the ...

I have long remembered a conversation I had 20 years ago with one of my professors, an expert in what we then called artificial intelligence, which, in many ways, is wildly different to what we now ...

In 1884 the anthropologist Franz Boas returned from Baffin Island with a discovery that would kick off decades of linguistic wrangling: by his count, the local Inuit language had four words for snow, ...

There’s a good chance learning a new language is one of your New Year’s resolutions, unless you’re hoping Google Translate will be enough for your next international adventure. Either way, you’ll need ...

Kateřina Chládková has received external funding from the Czech Academy of Sciences, Czech Science Foundation, and the Czech Ministry of Education. She consults for and co-develops the Mooveez ...

Vodacom South Africa has announced that it is the first organisation in the country to embed South African Sign Language, the country’s 12th official language, in the workplace. It will be integrated ...

K-12 educators in the United States are still federally required to support English learners’ acquisition of the English language, regardless of any official national language designation. That’s the ...

People who don’t learn English are limiting their educational and economic opportunities. ‘Official” is a very English word. It has its roots in the Old French “oficial” and the Latin “officialis,” ...