The Welsh Language Measure gave Welsh official status and put public bodies under a duty to provide services in it, creating steady demand and an unexpected quality problem.
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The Assembly Government is expanding its Welsh translation unit and upgrading posts while the rest of the public sector shrinks, drawing fire from taxpayer campaigners.
Villagers in Rockfield want the Welsh name Llanoronwy scrapped from their signs, arguing the council invented a translation for a place name that never needed one.
Executive departments spent almost £200,000 translating documents into Irish and Ulster Scots. The row that followed was never really about the money.
A list of seven languages hanging on by a thread is entertaining, but the real predictors of language death are duller and far more reliable than speaker counts.
RIKEN researchers found Japanese infants stop hearing foreign sound sequences by 14 months, tuning their ears to native rules before learning words or grammar.
Around 100 protesters gathered near Ukraine's parliament against a language law expanding Russian, arguing bilingualism in law means Ukrainian retreat in practice.
US Spanish-language broadcasters began adding English subtitles as second and third generation Latino viewers, especially teenagers, showed a clear preference for English.
A bill granting Russian and other tongues regional status has split Ukraine’s parliament. The fight is not about grammar. It is about which way the country faces.
A Wakefield Research survey found 58 percent of Americans fear foreign workers will take high-paying U.S. jobs because the country cannot speak other languages.
Quebec is replacing the struck-down Bill 104 with a points-based test that asks parents to prove their child's English schooling would be an authentic education.
Wales, Catalonia, Ireland and South Africa all decide which language children are taught in, and each answer reveals what the state thinks schools are for.
A Universitat Jaume I imaging study finds bilinguals route attention tasks through Broca's area while monolinguals use the right hemisphere, and respond faster.