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How social media is breathing new life into Bhutan’s unwritten local languages

Dechen, 40, grew up in Thimphu, the capital city of Bhutan. Her native language was Mangdip, also known as Nyenkha, as her parents are originally from central Bhutan. She went to schools in the city, where the curriculum was predominantly taught in Dzongkha, the national language, and English.

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Archaeologists discover previously unknown ancient language

Discovery helps reveal how a long-lost empire used multiculturalism to achieve political stability

The Independent UK

Google Search's SGE broadens its global reach and gains new upgrades

Google's rolling out its fancy AI search to over 120 countries and territories, and it's got your back with even more languages.

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We want to target Gen Zs and 10-year-olds: ICC's big digital push for global events

ICC seeks to expand cricket fan base in India, USA by 2032. To do so, they are collaborating with 50 Indian influencers to create content in 10 languages, targeting Gen Zs and 10-year-olds. They are also researching US demographics to attract an average American to the game.

The Hindu

Tulu, Konkani, Beary, and Kodava add variety to Kannada content space

Kannada content creators gain recognition and say diversity in languages, slangs and cultural references enhances reach and helps fix misconceptions

The Hindu

‘We will not saffronise or Congressise our State Education Policy’

Karnataka govt. forms committee to frame SEP, a model for entire country. SEP will be unbiased, focus on quality edu. for children. SEP will focus on culture & nativity, not saffronise or Congressise. SEP will give primacy to Kannada, option to learn other languages & choice of Kannada/English medium. NCERT…

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Prince William hopes to pass on seriously impressive skill to son Prince George that Kate Middleton says she is ‘so bad’ at

“I have to make sure my children are better than me”

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NASA's new app helps you find the International Space Station in the night sky

The app is available for use in 11 different languages including English, German, Spanish and French

Evening Standard

Understanding all kinds of English accent can improve empathy and learning – and even be a matter of life and death

In a 2019 sketch from the US late-night comedy show Saturday Night Live (SNL), the actor James McAvoy plays a Scottish air traffic controller attempting to help a US brand integration manager (Mikey Day) land a plane in distress, because the pilot has been knocked unconscious. The fact that Day’s…

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Being bilingual slows brain ageing, and can prevent Alzheimer's

Humans are organised into around 200 nations, yet there are roughly 6,000 languages in existence. It therefore seems obvious that bilingualism is much more common than many of us might assume. This is an increasingly visible fact that appears to undermine the predominant model of “one state, one language”, a…

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Can you identify the 8 hours of AI-generated voiceover in Galactic Civilizations IV: Supernova?

The voiceover in Galactic Civilizations IV will sound familiar, but it's entirely different than anything heard before, thanks to artificial intelligence.

Windows Central

ASI text for plaques identifying Santiniketan as heritage site also does not mention Tagore

ASI's text for UNESCO-recognised Santiniketan heritage site mentions no names, including Rabindranath Tagore's. Plaques in 3 languages will be placed by Visva-Bharati, with no names, likely to prolong noise over the site

The Hindu

Several dialects of Tamil and 10 mother tongues of the ‘Dravidian family’

The Hindu

Language induces an identity crisis for the children and grandchildren of Latino immigrants

A young Latina mother I was interviewing once laughed uncomfortably as she described her sons’ embarrassment when put on the spot by older Latinos.

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Languages around the world have words for ‘this’ and ‘that’, study finds

Researchers studied more than 1,000 speakers of 29 different languages.

The Hindu

209 job aspirants in A.P. receive appointment orders in Rozgar Mela

209 people in Vijayawada receive appointment orders in Rozgar Mela. 161 of them join Indian Railways in various roles. Other departments and banks also recruit. PM Modi says Rozgar Melas have provided jobs to lakhs of youth. Exams now conducted in 13 regional languages, reducing time between job notification and…

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Multi-language microsite on Sabarimala pilgrimage planned

Kerala Tourism to launch microsite on Sabarimala, providing info in 5 languages. It will feature e-brochures, promotional film, YouTube videos & details of transport, lodging facilities. The project is aimed at making pilgrimage hassle-free & boosting Kerala's reputation as a major pilgrim tourism State.

The Guardian - UK

Children’s and teens’ roundup – the best new picture books and novels

A celebration of family; a guide to animal languages; Stonehenge spells; classroom crises; and dreams of becoming an alchemist

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Indo-European Languages: New Study Reconciles Two Dominant Hypotheses About Their Origin

The languages in the Indo-European family are spoken by almost half of the world’s population. This group includes a huge number of languages, ranging from English and Spanish to Russian, Kurdish and Persian.

Evening Standard

Why is Duolingo pausing its Welsh language course?

The language learning app is prioritising its resources on more popular courses

The Guardian - UK

Standardisation: the merit of consistent patterns

Coming back from a long holiday? Recently joined the department? Collaborating on a complex, cross-team problem that spans different tech stacks and programming languages? At one point, we’re all going to find ourselves in one of these situations. So how can we ensure that no one feels overwhelmed or unable…

The Hindu

Works of Tamil writers draw the attention of European publishers at Frankfurt Book Fair

Tamil lit. gains global appeal: 1st Chennai Int'l Book Fair paves way for translations of Tamil works into many foreign langs. incl. Polish, Norwegian, Arabic, Slovak, Hungarian, Italian, Welsh, English, Icelandic, Filipino, Lithuanian, Spanish, French. Perumal Murugan's books to be translated into Amharic, Icelandic. Live translation sessions, game, "TransLingual Tales"…

Chicago Sun-Times

CPS reschedules high school admissions test

All CPS eighth graders can take the test Tuesday or Wednesday in English. The exam will be available in five other languages on Nov. 1.

The Independent UK

Majority of adults support compulsory language learning in schools – poll

Only one in five said they can have a conversation in a modern language that is not their mother tongue, survey found.

The Independent UK

Can New York's mayor speak Mandarin? No, but with AI he's making robocalls in different languages

New York City Mayor Eric Adams has been using artificial intelligence to make robocalls that contort his own voice into several languages he doesn’t actually speak

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