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10 days ago

‘We’re a bit jealous of Kneecap’: how Europe’s minority tongues are facing the digital future | Stephen Burgen

What does it mean to lose a language? And what does it take to save it? Those were the big questions being asked in Barcelona recently

There’s an Irish saying, tír gan teanga, tír gan anam: a country …

3 months ago

The enormity of the attacks on Ukraine is impossible to grasp. Let me show you the horror of a single day | Oleksandr Mykhed

The rumble, the explosions and the deaths: they are so frequent that they seem normal. It’s a fight to protect our homes, our cities and the psyche

Day 1,254 of the invasion; 31 July 2025, Kyiv, 4.30a…

4 months ago

The Origin of Language by Madeleine Beekman review – the suprising history of speech

It takes a village to raise a child – and that’s why we started talking to each other, argues an evolutionary biologist

The story of human evolution has undergone a distinct feminisation in recent dec…

9 months ago

When it’s illegal to cause distress to believers, call it for what it is: a secular version of blasphemy | Kenan Malik

Language can ‘open eyes’, Salman Rushdie wrote, yet still ideas of profanity are being used to silence dissenting voices

‘Whatever the attack was about, it wasn’t about The Satanic Verses.” So insists…

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