Five years ago, in the heart of the Kanien’kehá:ka Nation, along the Canadian St. Lawrence River across from Montréal, Kanen’tó:kon Hemlock and Ieronhienhá:wi Tatum McComber pondered a question posed ...

In 1954, the Cuban ethnographer Lydia Cabrera published “El Monte,” a book that committed to paper the hitherto oral history of major Afro-Cuban religious traditions. Its title, which translates ...

Faced with economic hardships and the Covid-19 pandemic, many young Cubans have sought refuge in religion. Abakua, a uniquely Cuban spiritual practice, has grown in Cuba and many have converted to the ...

With a population of around 40 million throughout Nigeria, the Igbo people are one of the biggest and most influential tribes among countries around the world. Igbos are well-known for their ...

The long-held idea that language learning is better before adulthood is up for debate. Adults have a number of advantages when it comes to learning a second language, and it comes with major benefits.

A group of neuroscientists argue that our words are primarily for communicating, not for reasoning. By Carl Zimmer For thousands of years, philosophers have argued about the purpose of language. Plato ...

The term ‘mother tongue’ is widely used, however how it is defined can depend on who is using it and in what context. Mother tongue can refer to the language that one has learnt first; the language ...

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LINGUISTS TEND to say that all languages are valuable, expressive and complex. They usually attribute negative attitudes to prejudice and politics. That is probably why no one has carefully studied ...