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Europe wants artificial intelligence to understand all its languages. Can it overcome English dominance to make AI truly ...
The BA European Languages, Literature and Film Studies curriculum builds upon existing UW language minors and established humanities coursework in French, German, and Spanish.
President Donald Trump on Saturday announced 30 percent tariffs on all European goods entering the U.S., prompting pushback ...
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.
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 ...
A new study claims to have identified the first speakers of Indo-European language, which gave rise to English, Sanskrit and hundreds of others.
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 ...
Laura Spinney’s “Proto: How One Ancient Language Went Global” explores the roots of language and how it spread and changed across time and place.
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 languages ...
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 ...
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. Lithuanian President Gitanas ...
Part of what makes Europe such a bountiful well of cultures is its linguistic diversity. The annual European Day of Languages celebrates it.