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France's language policy has long placed French as the only “language of the Republic” and has ignored or even banned the use of more than 20 minority languages spoken across the country. Fast forward ...

Europe, a continent of 48 countries and nearly 750 million people spread across 19.53 million square kilometers, is a melting pot of languages with over 200 spoken across the region, reflecting its ...

PEORIA — Though Dennis Stroughmatt estimates that there are only about 15 people alive who still speak the French dialect spoken by Illinois and Missouri’s earliest non-native settlers, sometimes he ...

For centuries, people have used mythology to try to make sense of the fact that the people of the world speak so many different languages. One example of the origin story of the "confusion of tongues" ...

Language forms the backbone of communal existence. It doesn't take long to discover this if you've ever traveled to a place where you don't speak the language. "Where is the nearest bathroom?", "How ...

Due to its colonial past with France, Togo adopted French as its official language in 1960, a fact enshrined in Article 3 of the country's constitution. But what place does French now have in Togo’s ...