New York isn’t just a haven for Christians from around the world; it’s also a sanctuary for their rare and dying dialects.

When was the last time a speaker of the Western dialect of Armenian named one of their sons after the most prominent king of ...

Rudy Youngblood has been released from jail in Athens, Greece, on Friday, after being arrested a week ago following a ...

The Derveni papyrus, an ancient Greek papyrus roll, is considered to be Europe's oldest surviving readable manuscript.

This volume is the first of four devoted to Atticism, a form of linguistic purism that sought to preserve the rules of the 5th-century Attic dialect against the evolution of Postclassical Greek. The ...

The name of the modern city of Turkey “Izmir” is derived from the Greek “Smyrna” in the ancient Greek Ionian dialect. The word itself wasn’t originally Greek but came from Anatolian roots. Ancient ...

A road trip through Brazil’s Rio Grande do Sul state leads to German and Italian cuisine, dialects and a surprising number of music festivals. The author encountered accordion music and other ...

People gather to build large fires and dance around them with local music. The name itself has layers —'Babo' means grandmother in the traditional Slavic language that influenced northern Greek ...