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Language & Peoples

The young Europeans set on making Latin a pillar of European identity

The EU currently has 24 official languages. Lithuania's national broadcaster LRT reports on a group of young Europeans who want to add a dead one.
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Glottopolitics, with Sophia Smith Galer [Oct ’26]

Curating stories about language politics from around the world. Keep reading for stories from Portugal, France, Uzbekistan, Latvia, and Taiwan
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Fighting over eggs in India

Ingredients in a school lunch programme for kids are sowing divisions along caste and religious lines
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The Little Prince learns Portugal’s secret language

The translation of a literary classic into endangered Minderico is intended to bring one of Portugal’s least-known languages to a new generation
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The bathroom singers of Karachi

How a group of women finds joy and nostalgia in the crowded capital
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Is it possible to be trans and not suffer so much?

An Argentinian documentary follows a teenager’s transition
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Dialogue with the dolls

Brazil moves to recognise trans language Pajubá as cultural heritage
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From hand to eye to mouth to ear

Amongst the deaf of Egypt’s Sinai peninsula
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The city that forgot it was built on water  

Dhaka was once defined by its waterways – restoring them, experts argue, could finally free the city from its gridlock
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The multiverse of “UK Shelby”

How a Chinese immigrant in a Welsh town has built a following on Chinese social media platform Douyin and what his fame says about language and belonging
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Bangalore: Many tongues, one fare

An unfiltered view of of the city from the backseat of a taxi cab
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Digitising Urdu’s cascading calligraphy

An interview with Abeera Kamran and Zeerak Ahmed, by Sophia Smith Galer
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