Haitian Creole is a national language, but Creole speakers can encounter prejudice, so some were thrilled to see “The Ransom” offered in Creole. By Catherine Porter The New York Times’s “Ransom” ...

Heritage languages mold the existence of the United States of America. According to Dr. Carreira, people speak over 350 languages other than English at home. And more than 67 million people speak a ...

IN AN airy first-floor study, Eldred Jones, who is 93, takes a break from his Braille Bible to talk about how he first left Sierra Leone to study at Oxford. Later he became principal of west Africa’s ...

Haitian Creole is the third-most-spoken language in Florida, but the resources for learning it are scarce, outdated and often lack lessons on day-to-day conversation. Among those who speak the ...

A large-scale study of languages shows that the grammar of creoles - which emerged in multilingual situations of extreme social upheaval, like colonial slaveries - are composed from the grammars of ...

This article originally appeared in Yiddish. As most Forward readers probably know, Yiddish and Hebrew are by far not the only Jewish languages. Jewish communities around the world once spoke or still ...