Across Europe, North America, and beyond, many learners are heritage speakers or descendants of Arabic-speaking families. Their motivation is deeply personal: connecting with grandparents, ...

Students studying for exams, competing against each other in areas involving language, and in general, should learn to distinguish between a language and its dialects. While the words are frequently ...

Despite its relatively small land area, Italy houses a plethora of dialects, many of which are different enough from each other and from the official Italian language to be considered separate ...

Journal of the American Oriental Society, Vol. 115, No. 1 (Jan. - Mar., 1995), pp. 33-51 (19 pages) During a recent visit to Iraqi Kurdistan I recorded texts in the Christian Neo-Aramaic dialects of ...

When was the last time you heard such expressions as “Oh, Law,” or “You-uns have a nice day”? And if you’re lucky enough to encounter one of these turns of phrase, once common here in the Western ...