The 15th annual Simply Slavic Festival begins tonight at The Youngstown Foundation Amphitheatre in Wean Park, bringing three ...

America's reputation for being a melting pot of cultures means it is also a melting pot of languages. English and Spanish dominate when it comes to languages spoken by those living in the United ...

Deep within the borders of modern-day Germany lies a region that doesn't speak German as its native tongue. Welcome to Lusatia (Lausitz), home to the Sorbs - the last survivors of a Great Slavic ...

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 ...

Following the approval of Virginia‘s referendum to redistrict the state in favor of Democrats, the state’s Republican Party Chairman Jeff Ryer called the wording on the ballot “blatantly dishonest.” ...

For decades, Barnard’s Slavic department has cultivated generations of scholars in Eastern European languages, literatures, and cultures. Since 2023, John Wright, GSAS ’05, GSAS ’08, GSAS ’11, the ...

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 ...

The weeklong festival has been compared to Mardi Gras, marking the start of Lent for Orthodox Christians. People in costumes march on Moscow's Manezhnaya Square during the Maslenitsa festival ...

In a devastating blow to the Slavic Village community, it was revealed today that the Red Chimney restaurant will not be reopening in that neighborhood – at least not in the foreseeable future. The ...

This article was produced as part of JTA’s Teen Journalism Fellowship, a program that works with Jewish teens around the world to report on issues that affect their lives. I grew up speaking Russian ...

A measles outbreak centered in Spartanburg County's Eastern European immigrant community has grown by nine more cases, according to a Dec. 16 update by the South Carolina Department of Public Health.