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Ukraine bans some Russian music and books.
Ukraine’s Parliament voted to ban the distribution of Russian books and the playing or performance of Russian music by post-Soviet-era…
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Recording India’s Linguistic Riches as Leaders Push Hindi as Nation’s Tongue
DHARWAD, India — The task was gargantuan: assembling a team of more than 3,500 language specialists, academics and enthusiastic amateurs…
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For Russian-Speaking Ukrainians, Language Clubs Offer Way to Defy Invaders
LVIV, Ukraine — The teacher sounded her words slowly, careful to show which syllable to stress: Eyebrow. Cheekbones. Hair. The…
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Law Requiring French in Quebec Becomes Stricter
OTTAWA — Quebec’s legislature on Tuesday passed a law to reinforce the primacy of the French language, limiting access to…
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Jorge Drexler’s Music Connects Genres, Generations and Continents
A recent video chat with the songwriter Jorge Drexler quickly turned into a whirlwind music lesson as he demonstrated how…
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Is Geometry a Language That Only Humans Know?
During a workshop last fall at the Vatican, Stanislas Dehaene, a cognitive neuroscientist with the Collège de France, gave a…
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Quebec Language Debate Spurs Eerie Sense of Déjà-Vu
MONTREAL — When I go for a stroll in my Montreal neighborhood, the bourgeois-bohemian Plateau-Mont-Royal, I hear a Babel of…
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Amid U.S.-China Chill, Harvard Moves a Top Language Program to Taiwan
TAIPEI, Taiwan — Harvard University will move a popular Chinese-language program to Taipei from Beijing amid a broad chill in…
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A Language Bill Deepens a Culture Clash in Quebec
MONTREAL — Since Aude Le Dubé opened an English-only bookshop in Montreal last year, she has had several unwelcome guests…
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