Abstract: Hausa, a Chadic language spoken by over 80 million people in West Africa, remains critically under-resourced in natural language processing (NLP) due to the scarcity of annotated datasets ...

Before colonisation, many hundreds of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander languages thrived across Australia. Now, just over a dozen are learned as a first language. Estimates of exactly how many ...

A massive new analysis of over 1,700 languages shows that some long-debated “universal” grammar rules are actually real. By using cutting-edge evolutionary methods, researchers found that languages ...

In-depth semantic studies of TAM in Berber and Chadic languages are rare. And, although a substantial body of work now addresses this area, either as a primary focus or as a secondary issue, our ...

Listen to one end of a phone conversation, and you’ll probably hear a rattle of ah’s, um’s and mm-hm’s. Our speech is brimming with these fillers, yet linguistic researchers haven’t paid much ...

More than 7,000 languages are spoken around the world today and at least 3,000 of them, or 40 percent, are endangered. English is the most widely spoken language, with approximately 1.5 billion ...

Indigenous researchers and roboticists are crafting innovative tools to help save endangered dialects Serena Jampel Key takeaways: Keeping Indigenous languages alive More than a third of the world’s ...

Bringing with them the languages of their homelands, immigrants newly arrived by ship at Ellis Island await official processing and approval to reach their destination—New York City, already in sight.

Language is more than just words. It's how we connect, share ideas, and shape cultures. Knowing multiple official languages shows a country's respect for its history and people. It also helps ...

It might be where the language itself originated, but oddly enough, English isn’t the official language of the United Kingdom. WordTips examined both the de facto and de jure official languages of ...