People roll out a giant "estelada" or independence flag on top of a building during the Saint Merce celebrations in San Jaume square in Barcelona, Spain, Tuesday, Sept. 24, 2019. (AP Photo/Emilio ...

Scientists are developing systems that process and understand spoken language and automatically obtain information particularly from Basque radio and television. Carrying out a search in the net for ...

BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — In a victory for millions of Spaniards who speak a language other than Spanish, the European nation's Parliament allowed its national legislators to use Catalan, Basque and ...

This release is available in Spanish. A research team drawn from the Department of Systems and Automation Engineering of the Polytechnic University School and from the Faculty of Informatics at the ...

ST. JEAN DE LUZ, France — The world is losing languages at an alarming rate, a United Nations agency reported Thursday, with thousands of tongues expected to disappear by the end of this century. Yet ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

How is the identity of a culture transferred? For many cultures it’s through geography or heritage. But what if it was knowledge of a language that conferred a people’s identity. Continuing our series ...

"Nowadays, if you're not on the internet, you don't exist. The same will happen very soon with languages." There are about 7,000 languages spoken on Earth, but half are expected to go extinct by the ...

Spain's Parliament is set to allow the use of minority languages, including Catalan, Basque, and Galician, for the first time. The move is a demand from Catalan separatist parties to support the ...