Thanks to Bad Bunny, Puerto Rican Spanish has gone global. But what makes the dialect different?

The explosive success of Bad Bunny has brought Puerto Rican Spanish, a Caribbean dialect known for its musical rhythm, to the ...
NPR

A new South Florida dialect is forming in real time

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks to Philip M. Carter, professor of linguistics at Florida International University, about a new Spanish-influenced dialect of English being spoken in Southern Florida. If you ...
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Is Ukrainian a language or a dialect? That depends on whom you ask and how the war ends

In 2022, after the start of the war in Ukraine, the number of people studying Ukrainian on Duolingo, a language learning website and mobile app, increased by more than 500%. Most of those who have ...
BBC

GEORDIE DIALECT

Geordie is one of the oldest and best loved of Britain's dialects. But modern times mean that some Geordie words are dying out and North Easterners are changing how they speak. Inside Out gets ...
phillyvoice.com

This linguistics podcast breaks down Philly’s great, and changing, dialect

Philadelphia’s accent is unmistakable, and it’s often a source of pride among residents. What if you understood it better? Would you want to know what makes a Philly accent work the way it does? One ...
The Atlantic

What’s a Language, Anyway?

What’s the difference between a language and a dialect? Is there some kind of technical distinction, the way there is between a quasar and a pulsar, or between a rabbit and a hare? Faced with the ...
BBC

The history of the Potteries dialect

Steve Birks, a Potter himself, and chronicler of the Stoke on Trent area, tells us about the origins of the local dialect of North Staffordshire... The existence of dialects is not unique to the North ...