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Linguists can mix, match or even break the rules of real-world languages to create interesting imaginary ones.

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Visitors attend an exhibition during the World Chinese Language Conference at the China National Convention Center in Beijing on Friday. [Photo by Zhang Wei/China Daily] International Chinese language ...

Around 20 government schools in Pauri Garhwal district in the northern Indian state of Uttarakhand are teaching their students, most of whom are below the poverty line, Mandarin. The one-year Mandarin ...

A humanoid robot about the size of a primary school student had something to share in Hong Kong — it sang songs and spoke to people in Mandarin ...

People around the world speak about 7,100 languages today. Some languages, such as Tamil and Sanskrit, have been around for ...

Do you know that people around the world speak more than 7,100 languages today? Languages range from ancient ones like ...

Law promotes Mandarin as primary language of education and government China has 56 officially recognised ethnic groups, including Han Chinese Han, who speak Mandarin, make up 91% of the population ...

Simply sign up to the Chinese politics & policy myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. China is set to enact a landmark law requiring ethnic minorities to use Mandarin Chinese as their main ...

Translation tech has improved a lot. So why learn a language? Make life harder (and better): Learn another language. (SOUNDBITE OF MUSIC) EMILY KWONG, BYLINE: I want you to show up at the airport in ...