The pronunciation of “Qatar” is a no-brainer for Arabic speakers and speakers of similar languages. But it’s one tricky ...

The friction follows reports that U.S. President Donald Trump was considering renaming the Persian Gulf into the " Arabian ...

It is the official language of Karnataka, a state nestled between Kerala (where they speak Malayalam), Tamil Nadu (where ...

New Delhi: Delhi University's standing committee on academic affairs has recommended that texts in Urdu, Persian and Arabic included ... "Due to the language barrier, committee members have ...

Caste, language, and identity clashed in British India’s censuses. Explore how Hindi-Urdu politics inflamed communal ...

TEHRAN—Minister of Cultural Heritage, Tourism and Handicrafts Seyyed Reza Salehi-Amiri has said the great poet Abolqasem Ferdowsi became the architect of a language which went beyond geographical ...

El Atigh Abba's Brooklyn cafe is an in-between place influenced by its owner's favorite cafe in his native Mauritania.

Urdu, a language woven into the fabric of India’s cultural and historical identity, faces growing challenges under the current Bharatiya Janata Party ...

Pashto and Dari Persian. Dari Persian is the most common language, with 78% of people in Afghanistan able to speak the language. Pashto is second, with 35% of Afghans speaking the language. A country ...

Following five rounds of intensive negotiations, American and Iranian officials are close to signing a nuclear agreement, ...

Inuit languages really do have many words for snow, linguists found—and other languages have conceptual specialties, too, ...

Urdu, a language that thrived across centuries in the past, spoken by millions in India, has experienced a steady yet ...