In this strange and isolating year, reacquainting myself with Sylheti gave me a new understanding of my family I never understood the Bengali girls at my London school who were proudly monolingual. “I ...
Language barriers significantly impact patient care, trust, and outcomes, especially in diverse regions like East London. The Translate Myeloma project, supported by a small grant from the Centre for ...
Mithu Sanyal never learned her father's native language, Bengali, as a child. Is it too late to reclaim it? Do you want to know a secret? A secret so shameful that I hid it for decades? It's only ...
The team behind Shabdakalpa, anchored at the School of Cultural Texts and Records in Jadavpur University, believes that it would be the first historical dictionary for a non-Latin script, tracing the ...
A guide to which languages are most widely spoken, hardest to learn and other revealing facts. 1. How many languages are there? It’s estimated that up to 7,000 different languages are spoken around ...