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Google has announced that 110 languages have been added to its Translate feature, including several endangered European ones. About a quarter of the new languages come from Africa, the company said, with all the new languages representing more than 614 million speakers. You can now send a work email in Manx, the Celtic language of the Isle of Man that "almost went extinct with the death of its last native speaker in 1974," the company said in a post on its blog. Regional languages from France, including Breton - a Celtic language spoken in Brittany - and Occitan, which is spoken in the country...
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A recent study of the US Latinx community found that 75% could speak Spanish well, leaving a whole quarter of American Latinos unable. Of this group that can’t use Spanish fluently, more than half said they had been shamed by their community for their lack of linguistic ability. Yet amid statistics of falling Spanish fluency in the US, a new dialect is developing. Spanglish “is the fastest-growing hybrid language in the world,” Ilan Stavans, professor of Latinx and Latin American studies at Massachusetts’s Amherst College told El Pais. Spanglish is a hybrid spoken language that combines both S...
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Estonia has a rich culture of singing, with its song festivals (along with Latvia and Lithuania) added to UNESCO’s register of intangible cultural heritage. One Estonian village, though, was home to a world first at the weekend – the first ever song festival dedicated to eastern Estonia’s Kodavere dialect. The village of Pala, just a few minutes from the shores of Lake Peipus – across which you can see Russia – played host on Sunday to the Kodavere laalupido song festival, dedicated to reviving the endangered language. According to the Estonian Folk Culture Centre, a mere couple of hundred peo...
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The foreign language skills of EU citizens have increased in recent years, but not when it comes to German, a Eurobarometer survey published by the European Commission in Brussels on Tuesday revealed. In 2023, almost 60% of Europeans stated that they could hold a conversation in a language other than their mother tongue, up 3% on the previous survey from 2012, and almost 80% of 15-24-year-olds, up 5%. German is still one of the most widely spoken foreign languages in the EU: According to the survey, 10% of Europeans can hold a conversation in German, even if they are not native speakers. Compa...
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The foreign language skills of EU citizens have increased in recent years, but not when it comes to German, a Eurobarometer survey published by the European Commission in Brussels on Tuesday revealed. In 2023, almost 60% of Europeans stated that they could hold a conversation in a language other than their mother tongue, up 3% on the previous survey from 2012, and almost 80% of 15-24-year-olds, up 5%. German is still one of the most widely spoken foreign languages in the EU: According to the survey, 10% of Europeans can hold a conversation in German, even if they are not native speakers. Compa...
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The foreign language skills of EU citizens have increased in recent years, but not when it comes to German, a Eurobarometer survey published by the European Commission in Brussels on Tuesday revealed. In 2023, almost 60% of Europeans stated that they could hold a conversation in a language other than their mother tongue, up 3% on the previous survey from 2012, and almost 80% of 15-24-year-olds, up 5%. German is still one of the most widely spoken foreign languages in the EU: According to the survey, 10% of Europeans can hold a conversation in German, even if they are not native speakers. Compa...
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