Stories about Language from July, 2014
Doctors and Translators Are Working Together to Bridge Wikipedia's Medical Language Gap
A new project that aims to enrich Wikipedia articles related to medical subjects in many world languages has been given a $10,000 grant from the Wikimedia Foundation.
China Detains Star News Anchor Rui Chenggang Amid Widening Anti-Corruption Campaign
Authorities led him away from the TV studio on Friday just before his show went on air.
China: No More Cantonese Mother Tongue on Guangdong TV News
Despite the strong public sentiment against the language policy that marginalizes the Cantonese mother tongue in Guangdong province, Guangdong TV quietly replaced Cantonese news broadcast with Putonghua. How do people...
A Summer Reading List from Global Voices French-Language Contributors
Need some summer reading material? Here's a reading list of mostly Francophone authors recommended by the GV community.
Embarrassing Encounters With Foreigners Who Understand Chinese
Charles Liu from Nanfang.com translated a local newspaper's collection of Chinese people's embarrassing stories of speaking behind the back of foreigners who understand Chinese.
Gmail Now Offers 71 Languages, From Afrikaans to Zulu
Google has added 13 new languages to Gmail, bumping up the total languages available in the email service from 58 to 71. The new languages include Afrikaans, Zulu, Armenian, Azerbaijani (Azeri),...
How Technology Is Helping People Learn—and Even Save—the World's Languages
Forward thinkers are harnessing the unprecedented power of technology to bring languages back from the brink of extinction, and in rare cases, to resurrect an extinct language.
Want to Do Some ‘Timepass’ (Kill Some Time)? Spice Up Your Vocabulary With #IndianEnglish
Trending hashtag #IndianEnglish took a tongue-in-cheek look at how Indians have co-opted the English language and made it distinctively their own.
