dialect

Regional diversity in dialect words and pronunciations could be diminishing as much of England falls more in line with how English is spoken in London...

The ability of children to speak any two dialects – two closely related varieties of the same language – may confer the same cognitive advantages as...

An app that tries to guess your regional accent based on your pronunciation of 26 words and colloquialisms will help Cambridge academics track the...

A database of Welsh tweets is being used to identify the characteristics of an evolving language.

An endangered Greek dialect spoken in Turkey has been identified by Dr Ioanna Sitaridou as a "linguistic goldmine" because of its closeness to a...

Current estimates suggest that a language dies every two weeks. Here, Geoffrey Khan describes the documentation of a group of dialects before they are...