The Census bureau is spending $133 million between January and May to publicize the national head-count -- in 28 languages, including some as obscure as Hmong. The census, conducted every 10 years, is ...

And so, I dove in. I've used many of the languages I'm spotlighting here, so I'll take a little walk down memory lane and include some stories about my experience with those I've used. While I haven't ...

SEATTLE — Microsoft Corp. on Tuesday launched a program to create versions of Windows and its other programs in little-spoken languages, such as Amharic, Catalan, Gujarati and Welsh, to spread its ...

If you’re one of the billion people who speak a Romance language—be it Spanish or French, Italian or Portuguese, Romanian or anything else that evolved from Vulgar Latin between the third and eighth ...

Mr. Perlin, a co-director of the Endangered Language Alliance, has been researching linguistic diversity and language endangerment since 2006. He is the author of “Language City: The Fight to Preserve ...

Amazon.com Inc. today announced the release of a massive new dataset, appropriately called “MASSIVE,” which it says can be used to build virtual assistants that support some of the world’s most ...

Malicious actors are increasingly coding in more “exotic” programming languages to write new strains of malware on the basis that using new, lesser-known or otherwise uncommon languages will help ...

Most of the world's seven thousand languages will no longer be spoken by the end of this century. So what? Should we moan, resist, or say "Good riddance!"? This post was stimulated by a story in the ...

Sprechen Sie Rust? Polyglot malware authors are increasingly using obscure programming languages to evade detection. Malware authors are increasingly using rarely spotted programming languages such as ...

Google Translate is now using generative AI to learn new languages. The app has now gained 110 new languages, including Cantonese and Portuguese (Portugal). Google aims to reach 1,000 supported ...