CHINA, Kagoshima Prefecture--The dominance of standard Japanese in colloquial speech across the archipelago has obvious advantages. But it comes at the risk of killing off rare dialects spoken on ...

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks to Philip M. Carter, professor of linguistics at Florida International University, about a new Spanish-influenced dialect of English being spoken in Southern Florida. If you ...

Geordie is one of the oldest and best loved of Britain's dialects. But modern times mean that some Geordie words are dying out and North Easterners are changing how they speak. Inside Out gets ...

Owhamya? Yam bostin'...Tara-ar-bit. If you know what these phrases mean, you may have grown up in the Black Country or be a fan of Peaky Blinders. They are as synonymous with the area as its foundries ...

A new book on American English in the Midwest makes Chicago seem exotic. It’s certainly not the title: “Language Variation and Change in the American Midland: A New Look at `Heartland’ English” (John ...

Steve Birks, a Potter himself, and chronicler of the Stoke on Trent area, tells us about the origins of the local dialect of North Staffordshire... The existence of dialects is not unique to the North ...

If you speak English with a California accent but you want to learn to speak Sindarin like a native — that is, like a Middle Earth elf — where do you start? Begin with vowel sounds, said Leith ...