Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Born in Crimea and raised in Kherson, journalist Yevheniia Virlych grew up speaking both Ukrainian and Russian in her daily life.

TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — When school started this year for Mikalay in Belarus, the 15-year-old discovered that his teachers and administrators no longer called him by that name. Instead, they referred ...

In an online post on the tiny Turkmen corner of TikTok earlier this month, a user introducing herself as a female singer complained of being language-shamed during an interview for a gig at a ...

When anthropology researcher Ashley McDermott was doing fieldwork in Kyrgyzstan a few years ago, she says many people voiced the same concern: Children were losing touch with their indigenous language ...

Uzbekistan’s Gen Z is tired of the Russian language’s privileged status in the country. According to government statistics, approximately 2.1 percent of the country’s 37.5 million people are ...

Protesters gather in front of the main governmental building secured by a police unit to protest usage of Russian language in Ukrainian TV in Kyiv, Ukraine, Feb. 1, 2022 (NurPhoto by Dominika Zarzycka ...

In 2025, over 7,000 languages are spoken worldwide, yet just a handful dominate global communication. These top languages aren’t only defined by their native speakers, but also by how widely they are ...

Despite AI’s promise of inclusion, search and LLMs still sideline minority languages. Here’s why it matters – and what must change. Despite thousands of languages spoken worldwide, only a small ...

In this article, we will take a look at the 30 most spoken languages in the world in 2024. If you would like to skip our discussion on the language services market, you can go to the 5 Most Spoken ...

On October 23, 2024, Shamshad Abdullayev, one of the most important contemporary Russian-language poets and founder of the so-called “Fergana School of Poetry” (in fact, there was no “poetry school”, ...