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Vows of silence and humanist beliefs led European clerics to create new communication methods for the deaf 500 years ago. Charles-Michel de L'Épée teaching the hearing impaired in his Paris institute.

The mystery of the now-ruined Mesoamerican city of Teotihuacan may rest in a lost language scholars said they’ve deciphered. The ruins near Mexico City include murals that scholars believe represent ...

It's four o'clock in the afternoon in the river town of Menindee, east of Broken Hill, and most children have finished school for the day. But at the central school, one class is still going. The ...

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Have you ever called your colleague a "hairy-nose wombat", a "giggling goose", or yelled "hell yeah" across the office? If you were a politician and used one of those expressions in parliament, you ...

A Big Brother contestant has been removed from the reality show for the "repeated use of unacceptable language and behaviour", ITV has said. George Gilbert had received warnings earlier in the series ...

China has established language schools in almost every African country. Observers say that's part of a strategy to expand its economic influence across the continent ...

The out-of-office responses from the accounts of employees on furlough cast blame for the shutdown on Democrats. By Eileen Sullivan and Michael C. Bender Reporting from Washington Some furloughed ...

When King Charles III opened Canada’s Parliament in May, the head of state delivered the Speech from the Throne in equal parts in French and English, at ease in both of this country’s official ...

SINGAPORE – The Straits Times has updated the language it uses to describe disability, in an effort to portray persons with disabilities more sensitively and accurately. This comes after a review of ...