Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Whether someone's speech is a language or a dialect is a matter of both linguistics and politics ...
Several MPs have also weighed in on the issue, with some saying they will file parliamentary questions. Read more at ...
Is saying 'breeks' instead of 'trousers' or 'tatties' instead of 'potatoes' like speaking a different language? New University of Dundee research suggests that dialects are processed differently to ...
This is not a call to promote dialects or introduce them into the public education system, but to no longer treat them as ...
A distinctive Scots brogue is at the centre of new international research that shows the brain treats a dialect and a language in the same way. Abertay University in Dundee, Scotland partnered with ...
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Idalia Fedotova, researcher at HSE University and the RAS Ivannikov Institute for System Programming, examined lexical differences across Khanty dialects and found that members of this relatively ...
A new doctoral thesis from the University of Gothenburg shows that a unique grammatical construction found in Estonia-Swedish ...
Skelting, wee wowing and 'that's the badger' are among the unique words and phrases used around Shropshire which have been unearthed by a pioneering project studying local dialects. Did you know with ...