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Exploring the whistling traditions of the Hmong people of northern Laos, whose language straddles the boundary between music and speech, this film witnesses a collision of ancient tradition with modern urban life. With urbanisation and the advent of mo…
Read MoreShakeel Suleman, Penny Salter, Jamila Begum and Richard Lamsdale respond to an article by Saima Mir on how language can become lost through generations of immigrantsSaima Mir (My children don’t speak my mother tongue – as a second-generation migrant, i…
Read MoreThe character, chosen by public vote, reflected feelings about the state of the world and anxiety over living cost pressuresPeople in Japan have chosen the kanji character for “war” as the symbol that sums up 2022 – a year marked by conflict in Ukraine…
Read MoreThe island’s Indigenous people are in a race against time to save their native tongues before they are lost foreverIn a modest conference room near the edge of Taiwan’s Sun Moon Lake, Panu Kapamumu holds up an unwieldy A3 booklet. The home-printed docu…
Read MoreGroup of language experts is taking local governments and organisations to task for their over-reliance on machine translationEncountering mangled English is a frequent source of mirth for many residents of Japan, but for one group of language professi…
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