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Korean peninsula’s north-south split has created a distinct lingustic divide
Daniel Pieper
· Nov 13, 2024 · 07:30 pm
Personal essay: From home to Parliament, the progression of communal slurs
Radha Khan
· Sep 29, 2024 · 09:00 am
Hindi paradox: Language of cultural pride that few Indians can read and write properly in
Apoorvanand
· Sep 20, 2024 · 09:00 am
Personal essay: A writer on the dilemmas of loving the Hindi language in a Sikh Punjab
Rajiv Thind
· Sep 15, 2024 · 08:30 am
‘Rickshaw’ has its roots in Japanese, and ‘hinterland’, in German: Shashi Tharoor writes about words
Shashi Tharoor
· Aug 28, 2024 · 01:30 pm
Semantic journeys: How some communities turned words used as slurs as an assertion of pride
Rizwan Ahmad Manish Thakur
· Aug 07, 2024 · 09:00 am
Why a community-run Gondi-language school in Gadchiroli is a revolutionary step
Bodhi Ramteke
· Jun 15, 2024 · 06:30 am
How a global organisation of volunteers is kindling love for Urdu
Abdullah Zahid
· Jun 10, 2024 · 11:30 am
In the Philippines, community works to save Butuanon language from fading into silence
Ivy Marie Mangadlao, The Human Journalism Network
· May 27, 2024 · 11:30 pm
Former TN minister Aladi Aruna’s book examines the history of anti-Hindi agitations in the state
Aladi Aruna R Vijaya Sankar
· May 23, 2024 · 08:30 am
‘Dhaniya, Cilantro’: Comedian hilariously sums up the struggles of being multilingual
Scroll Staff
· May 22, 2024 · 06:00 pm
How one man is spreading Bangla education among the tribes of the Chittagong Hills in Bangladesh
Faisal Mahmud
· Feb 21, 2024 · 01:30 pm
Who created the alphabet? A historian describes the millennia-long story of the ABCs
Jane Sancinito, The Conversation
· Feb 17, 2024 · 05:30 pm
‘The Centre’: How far can you go to save something as important and commonplace as language?
Rahul Singh
· Oct 28, 2023 · 01:30 pm
Watch: Woman shifts seamlessly between English accents from over a dozen countries
Scroll Staff
· Sep 27, 2023 · 01:21 pm
Do languages really ‘live’ or ‘die’?: Why the metaphor is misleading
Mario Saraceni, The Conversation
· Jul 18, 2023 · 07:30 pm
How Prashant Kishor has changed India’s political vocabulary
Krishna Kumar Pandey
· Jul 18, 2023 · 11:30 am
Reading, word lists and a whole lot of practice: How to become a spelling bee champion
Pawan Dhingra, The Conversation
· Jun 02, 2023 · 09:30 pm
Bengali to Kannada, Sanskrit to French: How I became multilingual
Prithwiraj Mukherjee
· May 07, 2023 · 11:30 am
‘Mother tongue should be prioritised just like English’: Javed Akhtar at event in Lucknow
Scroll Staff
· Apr 29, 2023 · 10:16 am
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