IN AN airy first-floor study, Eldred Jones, who is 93, takes a break from his Braille Bible to talk about how he first left Sierra Leone to study at Oxford. Later he became principal of west Africa’s ...

NEW ORLEANS (WGNO) — It may often be heard when talking among the inhabitants of New Orleans that someone is “Cajun” or “Creole,” but while those titles possess a rich cultural history, they also ...

Heritage languages mold the existence of the United States of America. According to Dr. Carreira, people speak over 350 languages other than English at home. And more than 67 million people speak a ...

A large-scale study of languages shows that the grammar of creoles - which emerged in multilingual situations of extreme social upheaval, like colonial slaveries - are composed from the grammars of ...

This article originally appeared in Yiddish. As most Forward readers probably know, Yiddish and Hebrew are by far not the only Jewish languages. Jewish communities around the world once spoke or still ...

The word "Creole" is all around us. From Creole stuffed bread at Creole Lunch House, to Tony Chachere's Creole Seasoning, to Festivals Acadiens et Créoles, to pop superstar Beyoncé's song and video, ...

CROIX-DES-BOUQUETS, HaitiCROIX-DES-BOUQUETS, Haiti — Teenagers in blue-and-white uniforms pour out of classrooms of this boarding school at the edge of Haiti’s capital, chattering in their native ...

CROIX-DES-BOUQUETS, Haiti – Teenagers in blue-and-white uniforms pour out of classrooms of this boarding school at the edge of Haiti's capital, chattering in their native language of Creole about the ...