As we gather around the table over the holidays, listen to the words that come out of your relatives’ mouths. More importantly — listen to how they’re pronounced. Do you have any plans to go “dahntahn ...

Often looked down upon as "pidgin German," dialects are an important part of cultural memory and diversity. Researchers say the vibrant spectrum of regional variations of German is under threat. One ...

Europe is unusual because it isn’t home to any native parrot species. But despite this, there is a rather large and diverse crowd of parrot species that have established naturalised populations after ...

Financial support for the Dialect and Heritage Project has come from National Lottery Heritage Fund (£530,500), the University of Leeds’ Footsteps Fund and alumni donations (£110,000), and partner ...

Whale researchers and enthusiasts have long known about the loud clicking sounds made by the marine mammal to communicate. Now, new research shows how whales at different spots around the globe ...

EVEN as the country works towards developed-nation status, it must not lose sight of its unique multicultural heritage, warn experts.

American English dialects and pronunciation have been a point of interest from coast to coast among linguists for years. In 1999, the Harvard Dialect Survey, a research project conducted by Professor ...

Rob Penhallurick is author of Studying Dialect (2018), published by Palgrave Macmillan. In another gig, McIntyre has similar fun with the Tyneside dialect: “So I met a Geordie quite recently. It was ...

YESTERDAY'S post on Cantonese touched a few nerves. A blog post is a very compressed medium, and I said some things briefly that I still stand by but which deserve a bit of elaboration. My calling ...