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Computer modeling is tracing the hidden evolution of sign languages
Popular Science via Yahoo News· 4 months agoIn tracing signed vocabularies’ evolutions, researchers applied phylogenetic analysis typically...
How technology helps and harms endangered languages
The Week via Yahoo News· 2 months agoVintage-style illustration of the earth on a bright yellow background, with Britain and USA highlighted in red. Multiple red arrows point from both...
Op-Ed: Learn Ukrainian, defeat Russia
LA Times via Yahoo News· 1 year agoAntonina Sidorenko, 9, holds a Ukrainian language schoolbook on the first day of online school in her village in southern Ukraine in September. (Dimitar...
The Things We Can't Say
Reason.com via Yahoo News· 8 months agoIllustration: Lex Villena; Yuliaglam An obscure webpage that Stanford University had quietly published seven months earlier made a huge splash in late...
Refugee students in Oklahoma getting different levels of federal support
The Oklahoman via Yahoo News· 5 months agoWhen fifth-grader Mohammed Fáizy walked into his Tulsa school, just months after fleeing...
A brief history of Esperanto, the 135-year-old language of peace hated by Hitler and Stalin alike
The Conversation via Yahoo News· 2 years agoAn Esperanto teacher instructs a class in a room with a painting of the language's creator on the...
As Cantonese language wanes, efforts grow to preserve it
Associated Press via Yahoo News· 2 years agoThree decades ago, finding opportunities to learn Cantonese in San Francisco wasn't hard. “I think...
Millennial mom breaks down everything a Gen Z teen taught her this summer: ‘Snapchat is everything’
In The Know by Yahoo· 9 months agoGen Z‘s “unique” language may not make sense to most millennials (or boomers, for that matter), but...
Weibo vows to regulate homonyms, 'misspelt' words if they are used to evade China's strict...
South China Morning Post via Yahoo Finance· 2 years agoChina's popular social media platform Weibo is cracking down on the use of homonyms and deliberately...
10 of the bestselling individual books of all time
Deseret News via Yahoo News· 5 months agoCalculating book sales since the beginning of time is complicated, but recent standardization has made it easier. Read for the top ten most selling books...