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People walking with luggage through T4 at Adolfo Suarez Madrid-Barajas Airport (Credit: Getty Images)
Thoughtful Travel

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By Daniel Seifert

Village of Saint Aubin, Jersey, with boats in harbour
Culture & Identity

The British isle with its own language

By Oliver Berry
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Rediscovering America

How Europe's oldest language ended up on US trees

By Haley Harrison
The island of Ocracoke in North Carolina is known for its distinct "Hoi Toider" brogue (Credit: Alamy)
Culture & Identity

The US island that speaks Elizabethan English

By Brian Carlton
Aerial view of Panemunė road (Credit: Lukas Pileckas)
The Open Road

A scenic route that saved Europe's banned language

By Eglė Gerulaitytė
Temple in Tainan, Taiwan
Culture & Identity

The 400-year-old cradle of Taiwanese culture

By Will Buckingham
Woman wheeling a bike on Sark Island
Culture & Identity

The UK language you're 'highly unlikely to use'

By Hugh Tucker
Boat in the sea at Mahabalipuram beach, Tamil Nadu, India
Culture & Identity

The curious revival of India's lost language

By Kamala Thiagarajan
Armenian letters at Alphabet Park
Culture & Identity

The 1,600-year-old alphabet imbued with secrets

By Sugato Mukherjee
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Dolly Pentreath, one of the last speakers of the Cornish language, lived in the fishing village of Mousehole (Credit: Richard Collett)
Culture & Identity

The rebirth of the UK's lost language

By Richard Collett
Kouri-Vini: The return of the US' lost language (Credit: North Wind Picture Archives/Alamy)
Rediscovering America

The return of the US' lost language

By Tracey Teo
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Lost in Translation

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By Joe Baur
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By Richard Collett
The small town of Eilean Iarmain has been at the forefront of Scotland's Gaelic revival
Country Rambles

A tiny village reviving Gaelic culture

By Sally Coffey
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Culture & Identity

India's obscure melodious tradition

By Satarupa Paul

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