New legislation formalises Mandarin as dominant language, grants sweeping powers to curb minority cultural expression — and ...

A group of Jewish Mandarin speakers in New York has formed “Mazel Tofu,” a growing community that meets over kosher Chinese food to connect through language, culture, and shared experiences.

The Ministry of Education has been advancing the government’s Bilingual 2030 initiative by distributing funds and encouraging schools to offer courses taught in English. Schools are encouraged to ...

Now a new law set to be rubber-stamped through the country's annual parliamentary session later this week will solidify, ...

In recent years I have observed something deeply troubling in Ghanaian homes and communities. I have seen children under the age of ten who cannot understand or speak their own local language. A child ...

Approved today by the National People's Congress, the legislation turns the president's views on the "sinicisation" of the 56 officially recognised groups into law. Han identity is defined as the ...

BEIJING — China passed on Thursday a law on a “shared” national identity among the country’s 55 ethnic minority groups, a move critics say will further erode the identity of people who are not ...

Beijing says the law will foster ethnic unity. Critics say it formalizes practices that suppress minority groups.

Because most high-quality texts are written in English, AI models perform best in that language. Can languages like Chinese ...

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Listen carefully to a spoken conversation and you’ll notice that the speakers use a lot of little quasi-words—mm-hmm, um, huh? and the like—that don’t convey any information about the topic of the ...