Languages
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Watch: Before Nairobi, ‘Money Heist’ star Alba Flores starred in a Spanish movie and spoke Telugu
Scroll Staff
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Watch: A digital collective organised this multilingual poetry reading session on ‘language of love’
Scroll Staff
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‘I resisted reading translation theory before I translated’: A journey from reading to translating
Maithreyi Karnoor
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Want to build a language from scratch? Start with the question who will speak it, and why
Bettina Beinhoff, The Conversation
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The English may be leaving the European Union. The English language, though, will remain
Emma Seddon, The Conversation
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Watch: Actors Kumail Nanjiani, Natalie Morales take a class on slang in Urdu, Spanish
Scroll Staff
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How Telugu has become America’s fastest growing foreign language
Ananya Bhattacharya, qz.com
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Booker Prize: The tradition of multilingual writers seems to be dying out (and that’s a pity)
Julian Preece, The Conversation Aled Rees, The Conversation
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The way we see colour depends on the language we speak
Aina Casaponsa, The Conversation Panos Athanasopoulos, The Conversation
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Write in English or a local language? Writers from Assam are caught in a linguistic crossfire
Mitra Phukan
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How I discovered there are (at least) 14 kinds of love by analysing the world’s languages
Tim Lomas, The Conversation
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Watch: Foxed by online slang? Let Lily Singh teach you (and Will Smith) how to speak internet
Scroll Staff
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Eight things we learnt about translation on International Translation Day
Mohini Gupta
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Why do human beings speak so many languages?
Michael Gavin, The Conversation
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Here’s a literary quiz: What’s common to Ladakhi, Kurukh, Halbi and Saurashtra?
Devapriya Roy
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Watch: Is the Voynich manuscript the most mysterious book in the world?
Scroll Staff
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Biggest BBC World Service expansion in 40 years aims to extend British soft power
Abdullahi Abubakar, The Conversation
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It’s time for the government to stop spreading the lie that Hindi is India’s ‘national language’
Garga Chatterjee
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Urdu is a homeless language in India. The Vice-President tells us how to change that
M Hamid Ansari
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No longer lost for words: How researchers rediscovered the mother of all mother tongues
University of Cambridge