The history of the United States is multilingual, and many non-English speaking communities have managed to maintain their languages, sometimes for hundreds of years. Here are six dialects of French ...

Large language models such as GPT-5 and Llama systematically rate speakers of German dialects less favorably than those using Standard German. This is shown by a recent collaborative study between ...

Few children, other than Amish and similar communities, have learned to speak anything more than a handful of words and phrases. The retired director of the Center for Pennsylvania German Studies at ...

In the 1830s, a wave of immigrants from northern Germany settled in the area of Cole Camp, Missouri, bringing with them their farming skills and the dialect of Plattdüütsch. Now residents are working ...

This proper Americanism, Pennsylvania Dutch, has always indicated a broader group of immigrants who came to America in the pre-American Revolutionary period from Europe’s Rhine Valley, which should be ...

As part of the so-called Molac Law passed in April 2021, pupils in four public schools are being taught three-quarters of the time in either Alsatian or German, with the rest in French. The Strasbourg ...