Volunteer testers who called Nassau County police precincts and headquarters and spoke only Spanish, received help about 50% of the time, according to a new report by advocacy groups the Long Island ...

The adventures of “Hombre Perro,” the Spanish-language translation of a series of graphic novels for children about a part-dog, part police officer named Dog Man, are hot titles at many of Long Island ...

Norfolk Island has taken a small but significant step towards achieving international recognition of the unique Norf’k language. UNESCO has agreed to include Norf’k in the next edition of its Atlas of ...

Volunteer testers who call Nassau County police precincts and headquarters and speak only Spanish only got help about half the time, according to a new report by advocacy groups the Long Island ...

Rhode Island leaders in education, business, and politics this month unveiled a blueprint to ensure that students learn a foreign language and build their understanding of other cultures. “It’s not ...

City and tribal-government employees on Alaska's St. Paul Island get Oct. 28 off each year for a holiday you might not have heard of: St. Paul Aleut Independence Day. It marks the day in 1983 when ...

They take up little of Earth’s inhabited land but churn out languages like no continent can. Languages are a lot like living organisms. Both evolve over time, allowing an ancestral tongue like Latin ...

Enrollment at the first dual-language elementary school run by the Catholic Church on Long Island has soared by 30% as it enters its second year, while enrollment in the Catholic system in general is ...

A devastating natural disaster 19 years ago has pushed the native language of a tiny island in the Bay of Bengal into decline. This could be a sign of things to come for many languages as climate ...