Derek Kauanoe, Assistant Professor at the William S. Richardson School of Law joins producer/host Coralie Chun Matayoshi to ...

Check out the real stories behind how all the U.S. states got their names What’s in a state name? Place names can tell you a lot about a location, and that’s doubly true of state name origins. Every ...

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Language is constantly adapting and changing to reflect our changing lives, experiences and cultures. Language change enables us to accommodate new ideas, inventions and technologies. It's not just ...

In the early spring of 1942, when the Army Corps of Engineers arrived to begin building the Alaska Highway, Alaska's population was approximately 73,000. About half of those residents were Native ...

Speaker 1: We need to change how we speak depending on the situation and who we're speaking to. When we don't know people very well we need to use more formal language. Speaker 2: (TO OTHER PEOPLE) ...

Two BBC journalists go on a quest to find out whose accent is older – and uncover a dramatic history filled with hidden twists and surprises. America's linguistic independence has transformed the ...

Languages often co-express related meanings, either reusing words or combining parts of words. It is poorly understood when each strategy is favoured. Across 1,982 languages, Brochhagen et al. find ...