Khanty dialects found to differ more than Slavic languages
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 small ethnic group speak three distinct languages—ra.....»»
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Children with SEND deserve authentic inclusion in the foreign languages classroom, report warns
Pupils with special educational needs and disabilities should be given equal opportunities to learn languages, a new report argues......»»
Protecting endangered languages feels right, but does it really help people?
Headlines abound with the plight of endangered minority languages around the world. Read a few of these and you'll see some common themes: the rising number of languages dying worldwide, the distressing isolation of individual last speakers, and the.....»»
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Meta’s “massively multilingual” AI model translates up to 100 languages, speech or text
Meta aims for a universal translator like "Babel Fish" from Hitchhiker’s Guide. Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) On Tuesday, Meta announced SeamlessM4T, a multimodal AI model for speech and text translations. As a neural.....»»
The evolution of complex grammars: New study measures grammatical complexity of 1,314 languages
Languages around the world differ greatly in how many grammatical distinctions they make. This variation is observable even between closely related languages. The speakers of Swedish, Danish, and Norwegian, for example, use the same word hunden, mean.....»»
Decoding how molecules "talk" to each other to develop new nanotechnologies
Two molecular languages at the origin of life have been successfully recreated and mathematically validated, thanks to pioneering work by Canadian scientists at Université de Montréal......»»
Europe"s ancient languages shed light on a great migration and weather vocabulary
Painstaking archaeological exploration is a familiar, often widely admired, method of unearthing history. Less celebrated, but also invaluable, is the piecing together of fragments of ancient languages and analyzing how they changed over thousands of.....»»
A roadmap to help AI technologies speak African languages
From text-generating ChatGPT to voice-activated Siri, artificial intelligence-powered tools are designed to aid our everyday life—as long as you speak a language they support. These technologies are out of reach for billions of people who don't use.....»»
Hydrogen-powered planes almost ready for takeoff
Companies are readying hardware but differ dramatically in how they're testing it. Enlarge / Airbus will be testing hydrogen power on a commercial airliner modified to carry an additional engine. (credit: Airbus) A compl.....»»
Languages are both acquired and learned, so conscious and unconscious effort is needed when picking up a new one
Two concepts—acquisition and learning—play key roles in the study of language. Although there are people who use the two terms interchangeably, in reality they embody two different processes in the development of communicative competence......»»
New insights into the origin of the Indo-European languages
An international team of linguists and geneticists led by researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig has achieved a significant breakthrough in our understanding of the origins of Indo-European, a family of lan.....»»
Researchers find common cognitive foundation for child language development and language evolution
Cognitive and computer scientists at the University of Toronto, Universitat Pompeu Fabra and the Catalan Institution for Research and Advanced Studies have found child language development and the historical evolution of the world's languages share a.....»»
Rare Esther Inglis manuscript unveiled
A never-before seen manuscript by Scottish-based artisan Esther Inglis, dating back to the early 1600s, was unveiled at The University of St Andrews this week at The International Conference on Medieval and Renaissance Scottish Languages, Literature.....»»
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Global database of data for almost 3,000 orchid species show diversity of pollination strategies
Recent research, published in the Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society, used the database to reveal that orchids show remarkable diversity of highly specialized pollination strategies that differ across global regions......»»
Adobe Firefly AI expands to support prompts in 100+ languages in latest beta
In May, Adobe launched its Firefly generative AI in Photoshop to give the popular software a “creative co-pilot.” Now Firefly – still in beta – is expanding in a big way with prompt support now available in more than 100 languages. more….....»»
Scientists reveal the remote atmospheric signals ahead of an intense Siberian High and how their impacts differ
Cold and unusual weather events in East Asia have significant adverse socioeconomic impacts. However, our understanding of the physical mechanisms and precursor signals of such abnormal weather events remains limited. The Siberian High is a pressure.....»»
Edifier MP100 Plus Bluetooth speaker review: designed to be adventurous
Take your favorite music wherever you go with Edifier's MP100 Plus portable Bluetooth speaker, a pocket-sized speaker designed to go wherever you do.Edifier MP100 Plus Bluetooth speakerPortable speakers are great — we always have a couple of differ.....»»
Researcher investigates undocumented prehistoric languages through irregularities in current languages
Language can be a time machine—we can learn from ancient texts how our ancestors interacted with the world around them. But can language also teach us something about people whose language has been lost? Ph.D. candidate Anthony Jakob investigated w.....»»