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UNBELIEVABLE: 48 | History Defined

A look at India’s rich tapestry of languages

A look at the scheduled languages and how our current linguistic framework came to be

The Hindu

Regional language important in early learning: UGC Chairman

UGC Chairman Jagadesh Kumar told The Hindu that the regulatory body was aiming at preparing 1,500 books in regional languages in the next one year across different disciplines

The Hindu

India’s obsession with English has limited scope of development: Amit Shah

He was speaking at a programme on the New Education Policy 2020 in Bhopal

The Hindu

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‘Paltry’ languages take-up threatens Ebacc

Expert says decline in GCSE French and German puts qualification at risk

Evening Standard

Mali demands emergency UN meeting over French 'acts of aggression'

Mali calls for an emergency UN Security Council meeting over alleged French “acts of aggression”. Bamako accuses Paris of espionage and supporting jihadists as French troops, who had been in the country on an anti-terror mission, pull out. Also, a week ahead of the tightest general election Angola has faced…

France 24

Linguistics locates the beginnings of the Austronesian expansion – with Indigenous seafaring people in eastern Taiwan

The study of Indigenous languages spoken in maritime South-East Asia today has shed new light on the beginnings of the Austronesian expansion. This was the last major migration of people spreading out across the Pacific Ocean and, ultimately, settling Aotearoa.

The Conversation

All-English education in India neither desirable nor doable

Converting classrooms into an all English-speaking environment takes away children’s opportunities to develop crucial skills in their home languages.

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It takes commitment to preserve a language

Malaysia’s Indigenous language Bidayuh is declining in use and it will take a concerted effort to ensure competing languages don’t cause its demise.

360info

California has the most non-English speakers. Why do lawmakers have to translate at meetings?

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Assemblywoman Wendy Carrillo, D-Los Angeles, was leading a hearing in the California Legislature when a caller began speaking Spanish over the public comment phone line.

Tribune News Service

NSW SES launches new flood campaign in community languages targeting Sydney's north-west

A new information campaign to help culturally diverse communities in Sydney's north-west deal with a flood crisis will help keep them safe, the NSW SES Commissioner says.

ABC News

Experience: I speak more than 50 languages

During lockdown, I took short courses in Northern Sámi, Scots, Korean and Irish, and sat exams in Cornish

The Guardian - UK

Should medicine be taught in the local languages?

English is important as a medium of instruction, but a regional language helps in practising medicine

The Hindu

Students cheer as online translation tools add more African languages

Ugandan IT student Andrew Njuki spent years hunched over English-language textbooks, often grappling with material that would have been easier to grasp in his mother tongue Luganda.

Reuters

Aunty Kathleen grew up having to 'yarn in secret'. Now she's helping revive her Indigenous language

Indigenous Australians and Native Americans come together in the Red Centre to learn, from each other, how they can save their languages from extinction.

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The Scots variant at 'global forefront' of push to preserve endangered languages

A VARIANT of Scots has been put at the “global forefront” of the push to preserve endangered languages.

The Hindu

Meaning of ‘Swaraj’ not just limited to self-rule: Home Minister Amit Shah

Country’s languages, dharma, culture, arts and history should be passed on to the future generations, says Union Home Minister

The News Lens

Does ASEAN Really Need an Official “Second Language”?

If Southeast Asia really needs to have official languages, choosing all the national languages of the ASEAN countries would be a prudent move.

The Conversation

Bilingual education can work in South African schools: here's how

From the fourth year of schooling, the majority of South African schools teach all subjects in English only. The devastating learning consequences of this for children who speak African languages at home have been compellingly captured in the documentary film Sink or Swim. These consequences include lack of conceptual understanding…

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Australian researchers develop new communication system inspired by rare Aboriginal language Jingulu

The developers of a new artificial intelligence system inspired by an endangered Aboriginal language say it has unique characteristics that make it easy to translate into commands.

The Hindu

Language as barrier: On making mother tongue the medium for higher studies

There are both pluses and minuses in making mother tongue the medium for higher studies

The Hindu

UGC to launch portal for online courses

The University Grants Commission, in collaboration with MeiTY, will launch a portal to offer undergraduate and postgraduate digital courses in eight languages for the benefit of rural students

The Hindu

IIT Madras launches centre to build open source AI for Indian languages

The IIT-M has commissioned the Nilekani Centre at AI4Bharat to advance Indian language technology with a grant of ₹36 crore from Nilekani Philanthropies

ABC News

Latest round of Closing the Gap data shows 'disappointing' progress for Indigenous Australians with four of 17 targets on track

New data from the productivity commission has shown only four of the 17 targets under the national Closing the Gap agreement are on track to be met.

The Hindu

‘Vachanas with their human values need to be communicated to a global audience’

Vachana translation workshop inaugurated at Central University in Kalaburagi

The Times of India

Class 12 students score more in science, mathematics than languages

MUMBAI: In the CBSE Class 12 results, several students have scored a perfect 100 in science and mathematics as compared to languages.

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