Source: Wikipedia The Indo-European languages are a language family of several hundred related languages and dialects in Asia and Europe.[2] There are about 445 living Indo-European languages, according to the estimate by Ethnologue, with over two thirds (313) of them […]
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times Source: Muslim Sunrise, Summer 2009 Volume “It is not that I doubt that language evolved only once,” Steven […]
ABSTRACT OF COLLECTION OF THESE ARTICLES AND BOOKS Evidence that there is a mother of all the 6000 known human languages is beyond doubt and no one will question this […]
Source: Dunya News The Arabic word ‘InshAllah’ has officially made it to the Germany’s most authoritative dictionary, the Duden. According to Sputnik International, the new entry is spelled as “inschallah” […]
By Reuters – May 19,2019 -JORDAN TIMES Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif (centre) meets Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi (not photographed) at Diaoyutai State Guesthouse in Beijing, China, on […]
Source: BBC News By Sophie Hardach It’s a busy autumn morning at the Spanish Nursery, a bilingual nursery school in north London. Parents help their toddlers out of cycling helmets […]
Source: Pew Research Center BY KRISTEN BIALIK, ALISSA SCHELLER AND KRISTI WALKER Kindergarten students line up with their books at Gov. James B. Longley Elementary School in Lewiston, Maine. Over 70% of the school’s […]
Source: Time By KATY STEINMETZ Like his ancestors, 65-year-old Clayton Long spent his childhood immersed in Navajo culture, greeting fellow clan members with old, breathful Navajo words like “Yá’át’ééh.” Then he was sent to an English-only boarding school where his native language, also known as Diné, was banned. “I went into a […]
Source: Time BY Katy Steinmetz Jun 27, 2017 Visuals like emojis and GIFs can make up for the useful cues that are often missing from digital chit-chatting: the raise of an eyebrow, the shrug […]
Source: Huffington Post By Hajer Sharief Co-founder of Together we build it organisation, member of the United Nations advisory group on Security Council resolution 2250 & advocate for Kofi Annan foundation with Extremely TogetherHajer Sharief Co-founder of Together we build it organisation, member of the United Nations advisory group on Security […]
Source: Aljazeera BY Osama Bin Javaid Syrian refugee students now have the option to pursue their studies in Arabic while living in Turkey and resume classes from where they left […]
Source: BBC A well-known vlogger’s post of his removal from a Delta Airlines flight has gone viral on social media. Adam Saleh told the BBC he was speaking to his […]
Source: The Washington Post By Julie Zauzmer Jacob Salem speaks six languages. Yet if he walked into a typical synagogue service in either of the countries where he grew up […]
Source: The Economist Scientists have reached no consensus on the origins of language IN 1866, the founding statutes of the new Linguistic Society of Paris included this curious ban: “The […]
Source: The Guardian Inescapably and suddenly, Britain has been invaded by hygge. The Danish word, previously unknown to all but the most hardcore Scandophiles, is now the subject of an avalanche of books, hundreds of Identikit newspaper features, and endless department-store winter displays. Every story on the subject explains that […]
Source: CNN By Ben Westcott, CNN (CNN)A conversation between dolphins may have been recorded by scientists for the first time, a Russian researcher claims. Two adult Black Sea bottlenose dolphins, […]
Source: BBC By James Harbeck Languages are ever changing, mixing and mutating, and sometimes they give birth to new ones. Sanskrit gave birth to Hindi and others; Latin is ancestor […]
Source: Mail Online By SARAH GRIFFITHS FOR MAILONLINE If trying to order dinner or find your hotel abroad fills you with fear due to your abysmal grasp of foreign languages, […]
Source: Duluth News Tribune By M. Imran Hayee M. Imran Hayee is a professor of electrical engineering at the University of Minnesota Duluth. He belongs to the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community […]
Source: The New York Times By Wajahat Ali, who is the author of the play “The Domestic Crusaders” and creative director of Affinis Labs, a hub for social entrepreneurship and innovation […]
