The question whether Flemish is a language or a dialect is as interesting, and as futile, as asking if Mancunian, Texan or Appalachian are languages or dialects of English. In the Netherlands as well ...

Language forms the backbone of communal existence. It doesn't take long to discover this if you've ever traveled to a place where you don't speak the language. "Where is the nearest bathroom?", "How ...

Growing up, there was always a debate about whether or not Bisaya was a language or a dialect. I distinctly remember one of my grade school teachers telling me that Bisaya is a dialect when I insisted ...

I don't believe that in the Caribbean we are any different from other people with regard to modifying the languages we adopted from other parts of the world with local variations of standard terms as ...

Europe is home to 24 official languages, while as many as 200 are spoken across the continent. That might not seem like a big number when compared to Africa, where 1,500 and 2,000 languages are spoken ...

People listing Estonian as their native language in Estonia's population register will soon also be able to specify which dialect they speak. Minister of the Interior Igor Taro (Eesti 200), himself a ...

The government of India declared Odia as the sixth classical language of the country on February 20, 2014. On that day, Odias across the state found an occasion to rejoice. Linguist Debiprasanna ...

Researchers at Abertay University in Dundee have good news for you. Being fluent in both your dialect and standard English is as good as speaking two different languages. That is when it comes to how ...

I'd like to congratulate you on the fact that you make a difference betweenDutch and Flemish in your feature on Languages across Europe. Some people here in Belgium and the Netherlands are ...