When asked what it takes to “truly” belong in a country, many people globally say speaking the local language is key.

With the Dzongkha Development Commission (DDC) now subsumed under the home ministry as one of its departments, many wonder about the fate of the national language. It is renamed as the Department of ...

A Pew Research Center study across 36 countries found that speaking the local language is the most widely accepted factor in ...

Addressing the students during a graduation ceremony of the college, Ashwin said that Hindi is not the national language of India. The spinner was prompted to say this after the crowd fell silent ...

In an increasingly globalized, connected, homogenized age, languages spoken in remote places are no longer protected by national borders or natural boundaries from the languages that dominate ...

"Hindi? No response. I thought I should clarify—it is not our national language but an official one," the former Indian bowling all-rounder said in Tamil. Meanwhile, Tamil Nadu's BJP chief K ...

Lim’s reading habit has now led to him being acknowledged as the latest National Malay Language Icon by Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka (DBP). “The Language Icon recognition aims to celebrate ...