New research revealing a major migration to the island of Great Britain offers fresh insights into the languages spoken at the time, the ancestry of present-day England and Wales, and even ancient ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica — Walk into any government office, courtroom or classroom in Jamaica, and you’ll be expected to speak the official language, English. But venture into the street, tune into a radio ...

A WELSHMAN, A Sikh and a transgender woman walk up to the bar. It sounds like a joke, but in this instance the “bar” separating the judge from a courtroom has served as a synonym for the legal world ...

Can't understand? Well, that might be about to change, because the 'critically endangered' Cornish language is set to get the highest possible level of protection. It means that Kernewek, as ...

An extensive study of ancient DNA suggests that a wave of newcomers — and perhaps the first Celtic languages — crossed the English Channel three millenniums ago. By Franz Lidz Three years ago in the ...

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