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Europe wants artificial intelligence to understand all its languages. Can it overcome English dominance to make AI truly ...
Across Europe, there are more than 225 indigenous languages alongside the huge number of non-European languages that have arrived in the continent through migration.
Uralic languages, which includes Finnish, Estonian and Hungarian, are distinctly different from Indo-European languages that ...
A pair of landmark studies, published Wednesday in the journal Nature, has finally identified the originators of the Indo-European family of 400-plus languages, spoken today by more than 40% of ...
The Bachelor of Arts in European Languages, Literature and Film Studies curriculum builds upon existing UW language minors and established humanities coursework in French, German, and Spanish. To ...
Large language models (LLMs) landed on Europe’s digital sovereignty agenda with a bang last week, as news emerged of a new program to develop a series of “truly” open source LLMs covering ...
More than 20 European languages face digital extinction because of a lack of technological support, a study by Europe’s leading language technology experts has found. Scientists from The University of ...
A new study claims to have identified the first speakers of Indo-European language, which gave rise to English, Sanskrit and hundreds of others. By Carl Zimmer In 1786, a British judge named ...
Harvard researchers traced the origins of the vast Indo-European language family to the Caucasus-Lower Volga region, identifying the ancestral population that gave rise to more than 400 ...
How Migration and Soft Power Made Indo-European Languages Dominant. History shows that linguistics evolve in unpredictable ways — and that the supremacy of English is not guaranteed.
Today is the 23rd anniversary of the European Day of Languages. First celebrated on 26 September 2001, the Council of Europe initiative highlights the importance of preserving linguistic diversity ...