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Amazing map shows where the UK’s ancient languages are still spoken
The UK’s primary language is of course English, and has been for many hundreds of years. The tongue has evolved as many ...
Where the word ‘Easter’ comes from and how only 2 European languages use it
Easter' is found in English and German but in most other European languages the word for the festival comes from old words ...
Ethically trained AI startup Pleias releases new small reasoning models optimized for RAG with built-in citations
Pleias emphasizes the models’ suitability for integration into search-augmented assistants, educational tools, and user support systems.
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Deutsche Welle Investigation: A kidney for a handful of dollars – The dark network of organ trafficking from Kenya to Germany
International organ trafficking network exploits vulnerable people in Kenya and the hopes of those in desperate need of ...
New Scientist1d
An elegant account of how one ancient language went global
Hunting the origin of 40 per cent of the languages spoken today is a huge feat, but Laura Spinney's new book makes an ...
Who’s a Carthaginian? Genetic Study Revises Ancestry of Rome’s Ancient Nemesis
The inhabitants of Carthage were long thought to have derived from Levantine Phoenicians. But an eight-year study suggests ...
Psychology Today5d
The Fascinating Backstory Behind Our Pronouns
Most of these Scandinavians who settled in the North of England spoke a Germanic language called Old Norse. In Old Norse, the third-person plural pronoun was “thei/theim,” depending on whether ...
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Santiano musician Timsen: 'Dialects enrich linguistic diversity'
It'll be a few more months until the next Santiano album - and singer Timsen is using the break for his own project. He's ...
Foreign Affairs2d
Who Are the Germans?
THE Aryan myth is not an invention of the Nazis. These neo-Teutons merely exploited a widely-held German belief which dates ...