Hochdeutsch (standard German) is what's taught in schools, and what you hear on mainstream TV. But a huge variety of dialects are alive and thriving - especially in Bavaria - says Augsburg local Nic ...

The history of the United States is multilingual, and many non-English speaking communities have managed to maintain their languages, sometimes for hundreds of years. Here are six dialects of French ...

From north to south, east to west, the German language varies significantly - travel site Expedia's new quiz is a pretty neat way to demonstrate this. German is the native language of around 90 ...

“Plattdeutsch” or Low German has almost completely disappeared from German public life. Only three per cent of the population speaks this old language from the north of Germany. Artists, theatres and ...

FEW Germans now say Appel rather than Apfel (apple) or maken instead of machen (to make). The north German dialects that use such variants are mostly dead or dying. But the cultural differences that ...

Europe is home to 24 official languages, while as many as 200 are spoken across the continent. That might not seem like a big number when compared to Africa, where 1,500 and 2,000 languages are spoken ...

Large language models such as GPT-5 and Llama systematically rate speakers of German dialects less favorably than those using Standard German. This is shown by a recent collaborative study between ...