Whether someone's speech is a language or a dialect is a matter of both linguistics and politics. illust-monster/iStock/Getty Images Plus In 2022, after the start of ...

I’m guessing that I’m not such as old a dog as I think — I’ve been learning some new tricks! But … they’re the same old tricks, only different. Language, for example. Lately, I’ve had cause to look ...

Students studying for exams, competing against each other in areas involving language, and in general, should learn to distinguish between a language and its dialects. While the words are frequently ...

What does it mean to learn the Chinese language? Schools across the globe have generally presumed a consistent, straightforward answer to this question: it would mean learning standard Mandarin, ...

In some Indian languages, the word for “language” is bhasha—the vowels long and warm, as in “car” or “tar.” It has a formal weight and a refined spirit. It comes to us from the classical heights of ...

SAN ANTONIO – When I was younger, I spoke with a true Texan drawl, a product of my upbringing in West Texas. Somewhere along the way, for better or worse, I lost that accent. Language, dialect and how ...

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. African-American Vernacular English (AAVE), also known as Black Vernacular English (BVA) or ebonics, is a historic American English ...