Less than 1% of all translated literature published in the U.S. during the past 10 years came from a South Asian language, even though the region is home to more than 20% of the world’s population. To ...

For writer and artist Trung Le Nguyen, sharing stories was always a way for his family to learn and grow together. Nguyen, who was born in a Vietnamese refugee camp in the Philippines, moved to the ...

Melbourne’s locked-down neighbourhoods are home to one of the world’s most culturally diverse communities. Here you can find most of the world’s major cultures, more than one hundred nationalities and ...

Effective communication can be a challenge during and in the aftermath of any disaster, but as the recent wildfires pushed the limits of Los Angeles County, the gap caused by language barriers puts ...

The Department of Asian Languages and Civilizations offers degree programs in Arabic, Chinese, Hindi-Urdu, Japanese, and Korean; by its very existence, it brings global diversity to the curriculum and ...

The unique languages of many indigenous and ethnic minority peoples across Southeast Asia will soon go extinct unless efforts are stepped up to save them, senior United Nations officials have warned.