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Amid push for linguistic unity, languages across China face crisis, includ
Updated : 4 years, 4 months ago IST
Beijing [China], November 11 (ANI): Amid the push for linguistic unity, languages across China are facing a crisis, including Cantonese that originated from the city of Canton.
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Chinese tech firms appear to censor Uyghur, Tibetan languages
Updated : 4 years, 4 months ago IST
Beijing [China], November 11 (ANI): Chinese tech companies appear to censor Uyghur and Tibetan by removing their languages from study courses as well as banning comments in them from their websites.
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Harvard University moves summer language program from China to Taiwan
Updated : 4 years, 5 months ago IST
Taipei [Taiwan], October 15 (ANI): Amid the increasing tensions between the US and China, Harvard University is set to relocate its intensive summer language program to Taiwan from China.
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Beijing pushes Tibetan Buddhists to translate classroom texts to Mandarin
Updated : 4 years, 5 months ago IST
Beijing [China] October 7 (ANI): In a bid to tighten command over Tibet Autonomous Region, Chinese authorities have directed the Buddhist monasteries in Tibet to translate classroom texts from Tibetan into Mandarin, China's "common language," said a news report.
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China's new decree imposes Mandarin language on Tibetan children
Updated : 4 years, 5 months ago IST
Dharmashala (Himachal Pradesh) [India], September 22 (ANI): A new decree by China has imposed the Mandarin language on all preschool children and it requires all kindergartens across ethnic and rural areas to use Mandarin as the medium of instruction for school activities, a media report sai
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Sri Lankan plaque scripted in Chinese evokes fury, concern over omission o
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Colombo [Sri Lanka], May 25 (ANI): Concerns over the elevation of Chinese languages over official languages of Sri Lanka have emerged after a plaque made to declare the opening of a Chinese-gifted Smart Library of Attorney General's (AG) Department was scripted in Sinhalese, English and Chin
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Xinjiang court to hear defamation case against German researcher who accus
Updated : 4 years, 11 months ago IST
Xinjiang [China], April 12 (ANI): A court in China's Xinjiang province will hear a defamation case against a German researcher who has accused Beijing of human rights violations against Uyghurs.
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China ramping up efforts to promote Mandarin in Xinjiang amid global outcr
Updated : 4 years, 11 months ago IST
Beijing [China] March 31 (ANI): China is ramping up efforts to promote Mandarin language education and to Sinicise Islam in Xinjiang, despite the growing international outcry over its policies against Uyghurs in the province.
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Study finds children prefer people who speak like them
Updated : 4 years, 11 months ago IST
Brisbane [Australia], March 28 (ANI): Children prefer to befriend, listen to, and imitate people who speak similarly to them, suggest the findings of a study led by researchers at the University of Queensland in Australia.
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Two Chinese online producers disappeared after they mocked Xi Jinping
Updated : 5 years ago IST
Beijing [China], February 17 (ANI): Two Chinese online video producers known for poking fun at Chinese President Xi Jinping have disappeared on the eve of Lunar New Year, Asia News reported.
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Gnani.ai launches mandarin to English integrated speech solution for India
Updated : 5 years, 3 months ago IST
Bangalore (Karnataka) [India], November 24 (ANI/BusinessWire India): Gnani.ai, a global frontrunner in Conversational AI today announced the launch of a new integrated Speech Recognition based solution for the Indian defence establishment.
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Follow example set by farsighted predecessors, learn foreign languages lik
Updated : 5 years, 4 months ago IST
Washington DC [US], October 17 (ANI): US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has directed the State Department to ramp up critical-language study beginning with Mandarin but also encompassing other critical languages such as Russian, Hindi, Arabic and Farsi and called on "proud Americans" to lear
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