SINGAPORE: I must admit that I reacted with joy when Law and Home Affairs Minister K Shanmugam said that the dialect field on digital birth certificates would be reinstated. I am bound to rejoice. I ...

Rice University study of how the brain processes speech sounds found significant behavioral and physiological differences between a merged-dialect group and an unmerged-dialect group. When Rice ...

At a conference at Queen’s University, Shetlanders Mary Blounce and Douglas Sinclair tell Conal Gillespie about the new dialect group they’ve established to protect their distinctive dialect. Read ...

An estimated 17 percent of the native Estonian-speaking population of Estonia speaks a dialect ⁠— marking an increase of 2 percentage points compared with the results of the previous census in 2011.

Growing up, there was always a debate about whether or not Bisaya was a language or a dialect. I distinctly remember one of my grade school teachers telling me that Bisaya is a dialect when I insisted ...