Politics says something different For political scientists, the difference between a language and a dialect is not based on mutual understandability, but rather politics.

Some claim Ukrainian is just “a dialect” of Russian, which serves Putin’s narrative that Ukraine belongs to Russia.

This study uses a generalized additive mixed-effects regression model to predict lexical differences in Tuscan dialects with respect to standard Italian. We used lexical information for 170 concepts ...

On the leeward side of Kaua’i, Ke Kula Niʻihau O Kekaha — a pre-K-12 charter school — is celebrating its 25th anniversary and ...

The difference between a language and dialect is just as much about politics as it is linguistics.